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OFFICE OF TEMPORARY CONTROLS 
OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION 

MAX McCULLOUGH, Commissioner 



of the Office of Price Pimmistration 

JANUARY 1941 — NOVEMBER 1946 



Prepared by Laurence E. Tilley 

Under the direction of Harvey C. Mansfield, Chief, Policy Analysis Branch 


Historical Reports on War Administration 


Office of Price Administration 


Miscellaneous Publication No. 1 


November 30, 1946 






Foreword 


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This Chronology of the Office of Price Administration is the first OPA contribution to a series of 
historical reports on war administration prepared in accordance with a Presidential directive 
requesting wartime Federal agencies to record their experience. 

The OPA Chronology lists, month by month, events as they happened in OPA, in other 
Government agencies, in Congress, on the home front, on the war fronts, and in international 

affairs. 

Obviously it is impossible to list everything that happened in OPA. All the agency’s 
actions, vital and trivial, would produce an enormous volume. From an overpowering potential 
number of items, some 1,800 have been selected to show the trend of OPA’s programs and policies 
against a background of events during the war years, and the reconversion period. 

The Chronology is organized to present the events of any given month on a single page with 
columns for OPA price and rationing and other actions, and events outside OPA. Pages are 
not numbered, but are identified by month, and the index refers the reader to a month rather 
than to a page. 

References to OPA regulations and orders are given for most items in the price columns. 
A complete list of the regulations is not included in the Chronology because that information 
has been published in the OPA Directory of Commodities and Services and other OPA 
publications. 

Inclusion of names of OPA personnel has of necessity been limited to those who were 
Division Directors or above, in the National Office, and the Regional Administrators. 

Sources for the Chronology include OPA records, orders, publications, and reports, par¬ 
ticularly Price Action Highlights, quarterly reports, and press releases,- also the New York Times, 
Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army 1943-1946, Events Leading 
up to World War II (House Document No. 541, 78th Congress, 2d session), Chronology of Im¬ 
portant Economic and Military Events published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Chronology 
of the War Production Board and Predecessor Agencies. 


t the beginning of 1941 the efforts to control prices were centered 
in three divisions of the National Defense Advisory Commission (NDAC): The Price Stabilization 
Division, under Leon Henderson, concerned chiefly with holding down producers' and manufacturers' 
prices/ the Consumer Division, under Harriet Elliott, concerned chiefly with holding down retail prices 
and residential rents; and the Agricultural Division, under Chester Davis, concerned chiefly with holding 
up farm prices. NDAC was created May 28, 1940, by President Roosevelt under authority remaining 
from World War I. Thus NDAC had no specific statutory authority to set prices—but operated through 
persuasion, agreements, and "price schedules." 1941 was the year of "jawbone control." 


January 1941 

7th Office of Production Management (OPM), 
predecessor of War Production Board (WPB), 
created to direct materials and labor into the 
increased production of armaments. 

Consumer Price Index—100.8 (1935-39 
average, 100). 

February 1941 

17th The first price schedule—Second-hand Ma¬ 
chine Tools. 

24th First extensive cost survey started, the copper¬ 
mining industry of northern Michigan. 

Consumer Price Index—100.8, same as 
January. 

March 1941 

11th The Lend Lease Act. 

15th Consumer Division and Price Stabilization 
Division issue a model rent control statute, 
never adopted by any State, but setting the pat¬ 
tern for future rent control. 

24th Price Schedule 2—Aluminum Scrap (first dol- 
lar-and-cent schedule). 


27th Congress appropriates first $7,000,000,000 for 
lend lease. 

31st Price Schedule 3—Zinc Scrap. 

Consumer Price Index—101.2, up 0.4 from 
February. 

April 1941 

11th Office of Price Administration and Civilian 
Supply (OPACS) created by Executive Order 
8734 paralleling OPM; original staff of 85. 

11th By April, defense appropriations run to $35,- 
000,000,000—spending at rate of $1,000,000,- 
000 per month. 

17th Iron and steel products under price control 
(Price Schedule 6); industry promised a cost 
accounting study. 

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Consumer Price Index—102.2, up 1 from 
March. 

May 1941 

1st First Fair Rent Committee. 

1st OPACS sets up a Price Division under J. Ken¬ 
neth Galbraith and a Division of Civilian Allo¬ 
cation under J. L. Weiner. 


23d Price Schedule 7—Combed Cotton Yams. 

27th President proclaims unlimited National Emer¬ 
gency. 

Consumer Price Index—102.9, up 0.7 from 
April. 

June 1941 

14th President Roosevelt freezes Axis funds in 
United States. 

17th United States and Canada set up joint eco¬ 
nomic committees. 

22d Germany attacks U. S. S. R. 

27th Price Schedule 11—Cotton Grey Goods. 

Consumer Price Index—104.6, up 1.7 from 
May. 

July 1941 

30th President Roosevelt asks for stabilization legis¬ 
lation. 

Consumer Price Index—105.3, up 0.7 from 
June. 

August 1941 

1st Emergency Price Control Bill introduced in 
Congress. 

5th House Banking and Currency Committee 
starts hearings on Price Control Bill. 

13th Price Schedule 16 issued for Raw Cane Sugar, 
first price control in the food field. 

28th Office of Price Administration (OPA) created 
by Executive Order 8875. Leon Henderson, 
Administrator; Harriet Elliott, Associate Ad¬ 
ministrator; John E. Hamm, Deputy Adminis¬ 
trator; Louis H. Harris, Industry Consultant; 
Rolf Nugent, Consultant on Consumer Credit; 
J. S. Keir, Management Consultant; Seymour 
E. Harris, Export-Import Consultant; Rich¬ 
ard V. Gilbert, Economist; Legal Division 
under David Ginsburg with Harold Leventhal, 
David Cobb, Thomas I. Emerson as assistants; 
Price Division under J. Kenneth Galbraith with 
Donald H. Wallace and Robert E. Sessions 
as assistants in charge of Industrial Mate¬ 
rials, Karl Borders as Head of the Rent 


Section; Accounting Section under Herbert F. 
Taggart. Supply Priorities and Allocations 
Board (SPAB) created at the same time to 
coordinate the functions of the Government s 
wartime agencies of supply. Division of Civil¬ 
ian Allocation transferred to OPM with Leon 
Henderson as Director. 

28th Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation W control¬ 
ling consumer credit. 

Consumer Price Index—106.2, up 0.9 from 

July. 

September 1941 

Photographic copies of the 1941 income tax 
transcripts of large companies made at the Bu¬ 
reau of Internal Revenue for OPA use forming 
the nucleus of the first financial reporting mail¬ 
ing lists. 

Consumer Price Index—108.1, up 1.9 from 
August. 

October 1941 

21st OPA sets up a Division of Field Operations, 
under Frank Bane, Executive Director of 
Council of State Governments and Secretary of 
Governors’ Conference. 

25th Accounting Section begins cost and financial 
study of West Coast ponderosa pine manu¬ 
facturers. 

Consumer Price Index—109.3, up 1.2 from 
September. 

November 1941 

17th OPA’s first Regional Office set up in Chicago 
with John C. Weigel as Regional Director. 

Consumer Price Index—110.2, up 0.9 from 
October. 

December 1941 

1st Rent Control Act for D. C. 

7 th Pearl Harbor—on this date, 47 price schedules 
had been issued, and price agreements made 
covering 120 industries or commodities. 210 
Fair Rent Committees were in operation in 34 
States. 


December 1941— Continued 

7th OPA asks sugar producers not to raise prices. 

to 

17th Through the Department of Agriculture 
OPA asks major commodity exchanges to 
place temporary ceilings on wheat, soybeans, 
butter, eggs, etc. 

OPA sets ceilings for wool at December 6 
level. 

OPA asks suspension of trading in coffee, 
cocoa, pepper on leading commodity ex¬ 
changes. 


OPA issues Price Schedule on resale of iron 
and steel products. 

OPM forbids sale or delivery of automobile 
tires. 

OPA sets maximum prices on most fats and 
oils. 

OPA’s first retail schedule puts ceilings on 
flashlights and batteries. 

8th OPA sets up New York Regional Office with 
Sylvan Joseph as Regional Director and San 
Francisco Regional Office with Harry F. Camp 
as Regional Director. 


OPA’s first pilot surveys of rental operating 
costs started. 

Denial of price increase on cigarettes estab¬ 
lishes principle that so-called replacement cost 
is not an accepted accounting method and does 
not justify a price increase. 

Frank Bane wires State Governors, asking 
them to appoint State Rationing Directors who 
will appoint Tire Ration Boards. 

17th Labor’s No-Strike Pledge. 


18th First War Powers Act gives President Roose¬ 
velt emergency authority to create and reor¬ 
ganize executive agencies, make defense con¬ 
tracts, control trade. 

Office of Defense Transportation (ODT) 
set up with Joseph B. Eastman as Director. 

20th Age limits under Selective Service increased to 
18 to 64. 

28th General Imports Order puts thirteen strategic 
materials under import control. 

Consumer Price Index—110.5, up 0.3 from 
November. 



PRICE 


RATIONING 


During the month 23 price schedules issued, extend¬ 
ing price control over: 

5th New Tires and Tubes. (PS 63) 

5th Stoves. (PS 64) 

5th Resale of Floor Coverings. (PS 65) 

15th Lead. (PS 69) 

20th New Machine Tools. (PS 67) 

29th Wire and Cable. (PS 82) 


1st Tire rationing begins, first monthly tire quotas 
issued. 

25th Henderson announces plan for sugar ration¬ 
ing; warns against hoarding, which begins 
promptly. 


ADMINISTRATION 


January 1942 


5th State Defense Councils set up about 7,000 
Local Boards to ration tires. 

12th Regional Offices established in Atlanta with 
Oscar R. Strauss, Jr., as Regional Director; 
Boston, Kenneth Bachman, Regional Direc¬ 
tor; Cleveland, Birkett L. Williams, Regional 
Director; and Dallas, Max McCullough, Re¬ 
gional Director. 

19th Robert W. Wales becomes Assistant General 
Counsel for Rent. 

26th Regional Office established in Denver with 
Clem W. Collins as Regional Director. 

LEGISLATION 

30th The Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 is 
passed and signed by the President. Until 
June 30, 1943, it gives OPA Administrator 
authority to establish “generally fair and equi¬ 
table” maximum prices on most commodities, 
and on residential rents; but ceilings on agri¬ 
cultural products must be approved by Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture and conform to standards 
higher than prevailing price levels. No wage 
controls included. The Act establishes a spe¬ 
cial court—the Emergency Court of Appeals, 
with exclusive jurisdiction to review OPA reg¬ 
ulations. The Act also provides penalties for 
violation of the regulations, criminal proceed¬ 
ings, injunctions, licensing, treble damages. 


OTHER EVENTS 

2d OPM freezes sales of cars and light trucks. 

12th War Labor Board (WLB) set up by Executive 
Order 9017, William H. Davis, Chairman. 

16th War Production Board (WPB) set up by Ex¬ 
ecutive Order 9024, Donald M. Nelson, Chair¬ 
man. 

24th WPB gives OPA Directive No. 1 for ration¬ 
ing goods at retail. 

26th First American troops sent abroad, several 
thousand soldiers to North Ireland. 

30th Axis takes Bengasi, North Africa. 

31st WPB stops car and light truck production. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 112 


up 

up 

1.5 

11.2 

from December 

from January 1941 





RATIONING 


February 1942 


PRICE 

11th During prestatutory OPA, 50 percent of 
wholesale prices were brought under price con¬ 
trol with 105 price schedules, 120 voluntary 
price agreements, warning letters and sugges¬ 
tions (“jawbone control”). OPA publica¬ 
tion, “Federal Price Control July 1, 1940- 
February 10, 1942,” provides an indexed 
digest of this period. 

20th Price Schedules 1 to 105 reissued in Federal 
Register and validated under statutory au¬ 
thority. 

Nineteen more Price Schedules and Maximum Price 

Regulations issued, extending price control over: 


2d 

New Passenger Cars. (PS 85) 

2d 

Bed Linens. (PS 89) 


2d 

Petroleum and Petroleum Products. (PS 88) 

3d 

Tea. (PS 91) 


4th 

Soy Bean and Peanut Oil. 

(PS 92) 

4th 

Mechanical Refrigerators. 

(PS 102) 

5th 

Nylon Hose. (PS 95) 


9th 

Radios and Phonographs. 

(PS 83) 

9th 

Washing Machines. (PS 86) 

15th 

Western Pine Lumber. (PS 94) 

20th 

Southern Hardwood Lumber. (PS 97) 

28th 

Wool. (MPR 106) 



2d Car rationing begins. 

19th Recapping added to tire rationing program. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 112.9 

up 

0.9 

from January 


ADMINISTRATION 

6th Authority given for paying clerks in OPA Local 
Boards. 

11th Leon Henderson sworn in as Administrator, 
putting OPA on a statutory basis. 

12th Procedures issued for public to protest or seek 
amendments to MPR’s. (PR 1) 

16th Harry Jones made Director of Food Enforce¬ 
ment Division. 

16th Thomas Harris becomes Associate General 
Counsel for Rationing. 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st Quisling made Prime Minister of Norway. 

7th War Shipping Administration (WSA) estab¬ 
lished by Executive Order 9054. 

15th Japs take Singapore. 

16th Draft registration for unregistered men aged 
20-44. 

24th National Housing Agency (NHA) set up by 
Executive Order 9070. 

27 th Allies lose Battle of Java Sea. 





PRICE 

Five Maximum Price Regulations issued, extending 

price control over: 

16th Used Tires and Tubes. (MPR 107) 

23d Nitrate of Soda, Sulphate of Ammonia. 
(MPR 108) 

30th New Vacuum Cleaners. (MPR 111) 

ADMINISTRATION 

3d Henderson organizes OPA along functional 
lines, with J. Kenneth Galbraith, staff adviser, 
John E. Hamm temporarily Head of Ration¬ 
ing, Paul A. Porter, Head of Rent: four price 
divisions; Food and Apparel under Howard 
Tolley, Industrial Materials and Equipment 
under Donald H. Wallace, General Products 
under Herbert F. Taggart, Fuel under George 
Stocking. 

5th George C. S. Benson made OPA Personnel 
Officer. Personnel services previously sup¬ 
plied by Central Administrative Services 

(CAS). 

14th Nathaniel Nathanson made Assistant General 
Counsel for Court Review Office. 

16th Richard G. Gettell made Head of Apparel Ra¬ 
tioning Branch, later Miscellaneous Products 
Rationing Division. 

23d Field Offices opened in Baltimore, Birming- 

to ham, Buffalo, Detroit, Hartford, Houston, In- 

30th dianapolis, Los Angeles, Memphis, Milwaukee, 
Minneapolis, Newark, New Orleans, Pitts¬ 
burgh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Seattle. 

26th Retail Trade and Services Price Division 
created, Merle Fainsod, Director. 

Plans made for 60-70 field offices. 


RATIONING 

12th Typewriter rationing begins. 


LITIGATION 

3d Emergency Court of Appeals set up as provided 
in the Price Control Act. The Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court designates Fred M. Vin¬ 
son as Chief Judge, and as judges, Albert B. 
Maris and Calvert Magruder. 

ACCOUNTING 

2d Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 2 estab¬ 
lishes policy on increases in unit overhead costs 
caused by decline in volume of production. 


31st 


RENT 


2d Twenty rent control areas “designated,” in¬ 
cluding Birmingham, Detroit, Cleveland; ac¬ 
tual control to be instituted later. 


March 1942 


OTHER EVENTS 

9th Japs complete Java conquest, take Rangoon. 

17th General MacArthur goes to Australia from the 
Philippines. 

20th Department of Justice agrees with the Army 
and Navy on limited suspension of antitrust 
laws where war production is affected. 

25th Federal Reserve Board curtails installment 
buying. 

27 th Second War Powers Act gives the President 
power to seize property, enforce priorities, 
ration. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

First quarter 1942 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)_ 

War Spending (annual rate)... 

Consumer Spending (annual rate). 

Public Debt (end of quarter)... 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter). 


Up 5 percent. - 
Up 42.1 percent. 

Up 2.5 percent. 

Up 5.9 percent. 

Off 1.3 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 114.3 


Up 1.4 from February. 






















April 1942 

PRICE 

28th General Maximum Price Regulation an¬ 
nounced. Known as “General Max” or 
“GMPR,” it froze at March 1942 levels prac¬ 
tically all prices of goods not previously con¬ 
trolled. 

30th Maximum Export Price Regulation. 
(MEPR) 

During the month 26 Maximum Price Regulations 
issued, extending price control over: 

1st Pennsylvania Anthracite. (MPR 112) 

10th Iron Ore Produced in Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
Michigan. (MPR 113) 

20th Wood pulp. (MPR 114) 

21st Dressed Hogs and Wholesale Pork Cuts. 
(MPR 148) 

23d Used Egg Cases and Used Parts. (MPR 117.) 

27th China and Pottery. (MPR 116) 

28th Fertilizers, Superphosphates, and Potash. 
(MPR 135) 


RATIONING 

20th Sugar ration order issued. Sales to consumers 
prohibited after April 28, except in exchange 
for sugar stamps. 

28th Registration of restaurants (Institutional 

to Users) for sugar rationing. 

29th 

ADMINISTRATION 

1st H. Burke Fry becomes Budget Officer. 

16th Joel Dean becomes Director of the Fuel Ra¬ 
tioning Division. 

17th Louis J. Kroeger becomes Executive Officer in 
the Rationing Department. 

22d Callman Gottesman made Assistant General 
Counsel for Staff Operations. 

22d Administrative reorganization announced. 
Under Administrator Leon Henderson are 
Senior Deputy Administrator John E. Hamm, 
Economic Adviser Richard E. Gilbert, Gen¬ 
eral Counsel David Ginsburg, Industry Council 
Chairman L. H. Harris. Five price divisions 
are under Deputy Administrator for Price J. 
Kenneth Galbraith, Rent Division under Dep¬ 
uty Administrator Paul A. Porter, three ration¬ 
ing divisions under Deputy Administrator 
Paul M. O’Leary, and General Services under 
Deputy Administrator Dexter M. Keezer. 
(Information service furnished by OEM In¬ 
formation Division.) 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 115.1 


up 

0.8 

from March 


RENT 


OTHER EVENTS 


28th 

Three hundred and two rent control areas 
designated. 

7th 

29th 

Rent control regulations announced. 

9th 



18th 



18th 

ENFORCEMENT 

27th 


10th In first court case involving price violation, 
Philadelphia grand jury returns an indictment 
for tire price and rationing violations. United 
States v. Charles S. Kay. 

15th In first civil enforcement case, the court tells 
the violator to stop selling iron and steel scrap 
above ceiling prices. Henderson v. Pitts¬ 
burgh Steel Co. 


WPB stops production of refrigerators, radios, 
metal furniture. 

Japs take Bataan. 

War Manpower Commission (WMC) set up 
under Paid V. McNutt. 

General Doolittle’s air raid on Tokyo. 

The President’s 7-Point Stabilization Program: 
heavier taxes, stabilized wages, more money 
into War Bonds, discourage installment buying 
and encourage payment of debts and mort¬ 
gages, ration essential scarce commodities, fix 
ceilings on prices and rents, stabdize farm 
prices. 


ACCOUNTING 

29th Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 3 estab¬ 
lishes proper treatment for OPA purposes of 
special reserves set up on the books of corpo¬ 
rations to take care of actual or anticipated 
expenses and losses arising out of the war 
situation. 

29th Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 4 estab¬ 
lishes policy for handling cases where “last-in, 
first-out” inventory valuation method is used. 

30th Form A and Form B issued for current finan¬ 
cial reporting of business concerns (Admin¬ 
istrative Notice No. 2). 




PRICE 

11th GMPR effective for wholesale prices. 

11th Military exemption from GMPR designated in 
Supplementary Regulation 1 under GMPR. 

18th GMPR effective for retail prices, with auto¬ 
matic licensing. 

Maximum Price Regulations issued extending price 
control over: 

4th Cotton Products. (MPR 118) 

4th Finished Piece Goods. (MPR 127) 

11th Newsprint. (MPR 130) 

11th Farm Machinery at Retail. (MPR 133) 

11th Waterproof Rubber Footwear. (MPR 132) 

11th Rental of Construction and Road Machinery. 
(MPR 134) 

18th Bituminous Coal. (MPR 120) 

18th Retail Ceilings for Summer Seasonal Commod¬ 
ities. (MPR 142) 

18th Insecticides at Retail. (MPR 144) 

18th Gasoline at Retail. (MPR 137) 

19th Appalachian Hardwood Lumber. (MPR 

146) 

25th Canned Vegetables. (MPR 152) 

25th Milled Rice. (MPR 150) 

25 th Ice. (MPR 154) 

28th Bolts, Nuts, Screws, Rivets. (MPR 147) 

29th Women’s, Girls’, Children’s Outerwear Gar¬ 
ments. (MPR 153) 


RATIONING 

4th Ration Book 1 distributed for rationing of 

to sugar, through school systems with teachers do- 

7th ing volunteer work. 

15th Punch card rationing of gasoline on the East 
Coast. 

18th Bicycle rationing begins. 

20th First home canning amendment to the sugar 
regulation. 

ACCOUNTING 

18th Accounting Division begins auditing applica¬ 
tions for compensatory adjustments for higher 
all-rail transportation costs of coal to New 
England. 


ADMINISTRATION 


May 1942 


1st Harold S. Rowe becomes Director of Food 
Rationing Division. 

1st Rupert Emerson made Regional Administrator 
of Region IX—Territories and Possessions. 

2d Procedure announced for adjustment of retail 
prices under GMPR. (PR 2) 

2d Laurence C. Vass made Executive Officer in 
the Price Department. 

7th Organization and relationship of the National 
Office, Regional and District Offices, Local 
Boards described in Administrative Order 4. 
In general the separate divisions in National 
Office retain considerable authority over ap¬ 
pointment of field officials. 

7 th Region IX—Territories and Possessions—set 
up by Administrative Order 4. 

8th Functions of the Accounting Division an¬ 
nounced with Herbert F. Taggart, Director 
of Accounting Division; Martin L. Black, 
Paul M. Green, Assistant Chief Accountants; 
L. Donald McKay, Assistant Chief for Field 
Operations. (AO 5) 

12 th General Products Price Division abolished, 
Donald H. Wallace named Director of Indus¬ 
trial Manufacturing Division, Clair Wilcox, 
Director of Industrial Materials Division. 

19th Membership of Local Boards described in Field 
Administrative Letter 3. 

27th Alvin Eurich becomes Chief of Community 
Service Branch, Consumer Division, later In¬ 
formation Department. 


OTHER EVENTS 

2d ODT gets authority over cars, buses, taxis, 

trucks. 

4th United States Navy wins Battle of the Coral 

to Sea. 

8th 

5th WPB’s Order M-126 issued curtailing or for¬ 
bidding use of iron and steel in some 1,200 
items, from golf clubs and juke boxes to bath 
tubs and laundry trays. 

26th U. S. S. R. and Great Britain sign 20-year mu¬ 
tual assistance pact. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 116.0 

up 

0.9 

from April 









June 1942 

PRICE 

15th “Highest-price-line” limitation introduced for 
women’s and children’s clothing. (Am. 1, 
MPR 153) 

Eighteen MPR’s issued, extending price control over: 

4th Textiles and Apparel and Related Articles for 
Military Purposes. (MPR 157) 

6th Wooden Agricultural Containers. (MPR 
160) 

20th West Coast Logs. (MPR 161) 

22d Woolen and Worsted Fabrics. (MPR 163) 
31st Rayon Yam and Staple Fiber. (MPR 167) 


RATIONING 

Local Boards jammed with applicants for canning 
sugar. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Robert R. R. Brooks appointed Labor Rela¬ 
tions Adviser to the Administrator. 

2d Kenneth O. Warner succeeds George C. S. 
Benson as Personnel Officer. 

4th Procedures announced for suspension under 
rationing orders. (PR 4) 

16th Charles F. Phillips becomes Director of the 
Automotive Supply Rationing Division (gaso¬ 
line, tires, cars). 

22d Seymour E. Harris appointed Head of the 
Export-Import Office. 

30th Labor Office and Labor Policy Committee set 
up. (AO 29, 30) 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

Second quarter 1942 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)--— 

War Spending (annual rate)..... 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)--- 

Public Debt (end of quarter)-- 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter)- 

_ $117.9 billion._ 

_ $44.1 billion.... 

_ $79.6 billion._ 

_ ... $77.0 billion_ 

.. ... 54.8 million... 

Up 6 percent. 

Up 48.5 percent. 

Up 0.6 percent. 

Up 13.1 percent. 

Up 3 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 1 1 6.4 - j 

Up 0.4 from May. 

Up 4.4 from Jan. ’42. 


OTHER EVENTS 


RENT 


1st First areas under control; 20 areas includ¬ 
ing Birmingham, Detroit, Cleveland, Hartford, 
and Wichita. 

ACCOUNTING 

11th Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 5 estab¬ 
lishes policy on treatment of special cost 
increases. 


3d United States armed forces win Battle of Mid- 

to way. 

6th 

9th Combined Production and Resources Board 
and Combined Food Board set up. 

10th Town of Lidice in Czechoslovakia destroyed 
by Nazis in reprisal for assassination of Rein- 
hard Heydrich, German Gestapo official 
known as the “Hangman.” 

13th Office of War Information (OWI) and Office 
of Strategic Services (OSS) set up. 

17th WPB and OPA announce aim to tie quality to 
price. 

20th Rommel takes Tobruk, chases British into 

to Egypt. 

21st 

25th United States Army European Theater of Op¬ 
erations announced, with Maj. Gen. Dwight D. 
Eisenhower in charge. 





















RATIONING 


PRICE 

1st Ceilings put on services. (MPR 165) 

During the month 24 MPR’s issued, extending price 
control over: 

1st Sale and Rental of Used Typewriters. (MPR 
162) 

13th Beef and Veal at Wholesale. (MPR 169) 

20th Puerto Rico. (MPR 183) 

28th Kraft Paper. (MPR 182) 

29th Canned Fruits and Berries. (MPR 185) 

30th Alaska. (MPR 194) 

Men’s and boys’ tailored clothing (MPR 177) and 
fur coats (MPR 178) brought under price control, 
both orders containing the highest-price-line lim¬ 
itation first used in women’s clothes regulation the 
month before. 


22d Coupon gasoline rationing for the East Coast. 


ENFORCEMENT 

29th Supremacy of 1941 price schedule over pre¬ 
existing contracts recognized by highest New 
York State Court. Kramer and Uchitelle, 
Inc., v. Eddington Fabrics Corp. 288 N. Y. 
467. 

31st Suits for treble damages (three times the 
amount of an overcharge) becomes legally 
available to consumers on purchases of goods 
for use or consumption, and to OPA on trade 
and business transactions. 


INFORMATION 

3d Radio program “Neighborhood Call” started. 
Records of a dramatic show explaining ration¬ 
ing and price control used by stations through¬ 
out the country. 


RENT 


1st Fifty-five more areas under rent control, in¬ 
cluding Muscle Shoals, Indianapolis, Junction 
City, Kans., Philadelphia, and San Francisco. 
Total population of areas under rent control, 
34,000,000. 

ADMINISTRATION 

1st Personnel freeze halts OPA National Office 
expansion for several months, because OPA’s 
appropriation less than expected. 

1st OPA starts operating on first direct Congres¬ 
sional appropriation of $120,000,000. 

3d Announcement of responsibilities and functions 
of Consumer Division. (AO 35) 

8th Regional Offices given subpena power. 

16th George C. S. Benson made Director of Admin¬ 
istrative Services Division. 

21st Commodity Practices Regulation No. 1. 
(Soap—only order issued freezing previous 
production patterns) 

24th Food and Apparel Price Division abolished 
with resignation of Howard H. Tolley—re¬ 
placed by Food Price Division under Austin 
C. Hoffman and a Textile, Leather, and Ap¬ 
parel Price Division under Burton E. Oppen- 
heim. 


July 1942 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st British stop Rommel at El Alamein. 

4th United States bombers begin daylight air raids 
in Holland. 

13th WPB launches scrap drive for metal, rubber, 
fats, and tin cans. 

16th Little Steel Formula—15-percent increase in 
basic wage rate over January 1941. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 117.0 

up 

0.6 

from June 







August 1942 


PRICE 

1st New-goods pricing regulations for manufac¬ 
turers of building materials and consumer 
durable goods, tying prices for new articles to 
base-period prices in March 1942, and requir¬ 
ing reports of each individual item. (MPR 
188) 

During the month OPA issues new regulations ex¬ 
tending price control over: 


5th 

Whiskey. (MPR 193) 


9th 

Turned and Shaped Wood Products. 
196) 

(MPR 

24th 

Frozen Fruits, Berries, and Vegetables. 
207) 

(MPR 

26th 

Staple Work Clothing. (MPR 208) 


29th 

Cotton Ginning Services. (MPR 211) 


31st 

Fall and Winter Seasonal Goods. 
210) 

(MPR 


RATIONING 

Programs planned to ration: 

Fuel. 

Rubber Footwear. 

Gasoline. (Nation-wide.) 

Coffee. 

ADMINISTRATION 

1st OPA Loose-Leaf Service for Attorneys started. 

1st Henry Hart made Associate General Counsel 
for Price. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 117.5 


up 

0.5 

from July 


RENT 

1st Eighteen new areas under control including 
Key West and Milwaukee. 

16th Detroit landlords petition for rent increases. 


OTHER EVENTS 

6th Little Steel Formula to be used as yardstick 
for settling other labor disputes—the first, Gen¬ 
eral Cable Corporation Case. 

6th President names Bernard M. Baruch to head 
committee to investigate the rubber situation. 

7th Marines land on Guadalcanal. 

19th Allies defeated at Dieppe raid in France. 

25th Germans reach Grosny oil fields in the Cau¬ 


casus. 




PRICE 

13th Service industries required to list March prices 
with OPA. 

During the month MPR’s issued, extending price 
control over: 

7th Bedsprings Under Dollar-and-Cent Ceiling 
(MPR 213) 

22d Dried Fruits. (MPR 227) 

22d Flue-Cured Tobacco. (MPR 228) 

23d Cement. (MPR 224) 

29th Printing. (MPR 225) 

29th Rubber Footwear. (MPR 229) 

Correspondence between OPA Administrator Hen¬ 
derson and Under Secretary of War Patterson sets out 
agreement on application of price control to military 
procurements. 

ADMINISTRATION 

1st Department of Information created, absorbing 
functions of the Consumer Division (AO 35 
Rev.). Robert W. Horton the first Deputy 
Administrator. Leigh S. Plummer, Director of 
Editorial Division, Barton A. Cummings, Di¬ 
rector of Campaigns Division, Ralph R. Hotch¬ 
kiss, Chief of the News Branch, William A. 
Wells, Chief of Media Branch, Donald B. 
MacPhail, Director of Field Division. 

6th The Standards Division created in the General 
Services Department. (AO 49) 

9th R. A. Nixon made Director of Transportation 
and Public Utilities Division. 

29th Ivan Carson becomes Director of Operations 
Division, Rent Department. 


RATIONING 

29th Rubber boots put under rationing. 


LEGISLATION 

15 th Congressional action on Stabilization Act with 
to passage of the conference report and signature 
30th by the President on October 2. Prentiss Brown 
takes a leading part in the passage of this 
legislation. 

INFORMATION 

Recruitment of community service members at Local 
Boards begins as part of the newly formed Information 
Department. 


RENT 

1st Thirty-eight more areas under rent control, in¬ 
cluding El Dorado, Ark.; New Orleans, La.; 
Bethlehem, Pa. Total population of areas 
under rent control, 45,000,000. 

ENFORCEMENT 

First major Nation-wide enforcement drive under 
General Maximum Price Regulation. 


September 1942 

OTHER EVENTS 

7th President Roosevelt asks Congress for further 
stabilization legislation including farm prices, 
wage and salary control. 

10th Report of Baruch Rubber Committee. 

17 th President Roosevelt establishes Office of Rub¬ 
ber Director as recommended by Baruch Com¬ 
mittee. Appoints William M. Jeffers as 
Director. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

Third quarter 1942 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate) _ 

War Spending (annual rate) _ _ 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)_ 

Public Debt (end of quarter) _ _ 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter) 

_ $125.6 billion_ 

_ $58.2 billion_ 

_ $83.0 billion_ 

_ $91.1 billion.... 

55.8 million. 

Up 6.5 percent. 

Up 32 percent. 

Up 4.3 percent. 

Up 18.3 percent. 

| Up 1.8 percent. 

Consumer Price index 117.8- - 

1 Up 0.3 from August. 
























October 1942 

PRICE 

Temporary controls placed on most foods remaining 
uncontrolled under GMPR (TMPR 22), making use 
of new authority under the Stabilization Act. 

New MPR’s issued during the month, extending price 
control over: 

8th Lamb. (MPR 239) 

13th Approved Stirrup Pumps for OCD Use. 
(MPR 234) 

15th Mark-up Regulations on Food at Wholesale 
and Retail. (MPR 237-8) 

26th Gray Iron Castings. (MPR 244) 


RATIONING 

19th Fuel oil rationing begins. 

26th Ration banking experiment in Albany, Sche¬ 
nectady, and Troy, N. Y., using commercial 
banks to handle ration currency like money. 

28th Appeal procedure under ration orders an¬ 
nounced. (PR 9) 


ADMINISTRATION 

16th Joseph A. Kershaw placed in charge of Ration 
Banking in Rationing Department. 

20th Sumner T. Pike succeeds George W. Stocking 
as Director of the Fuel Price Division. 

24th T. Arnold Hill appointed Special Assistant to 
the Senior Deputy Administrator, for Race 
Relations. 

ACCOUNTING 

14th Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 6 estab¬ 
lishes policy on confidentiality of financial 
information. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 119.0 


up 

1.2 

from September 


RENT 

1st Fifty-four more rent areas including Silver 
City, N. Mex., Rochester, N. Y., Kalamazoo, 
Mich, Newport, R. I. Total population of 
areas under rent control, 50,000,000. 

5th Balance of Nation “designated” for rent con¬ 
trol. 

19th Amendment 6 to Rent Regulation for Hous¬ 
ing restricts eviction of tenant on sale of house, 
3 months’ notice required and a down pay¬ 
ment of at least 20 percent. 


OTHER EVENTS 

8th WPB closes gold mines. 

14th United States Army strength, 4,250,000. 

21st United States income tax up. 

23d British win battle of Egypt, chase Rommel 
across Libya. 

24th United States Navy attacks Gilbert Islands. 


LEGISLATION 

2d Congress passes and the President signs the 
Stabilization Act which authorizes the Presi¬ 
dent to stabilize agricultural prices, wages and 
salaries affecting the cost of living at about 
the September 15, 1942, level. The Act also 
extends the Price Control Act from June 30, 
1943 to June 30, 1944. 

President Roosevelt acts under this au¬ 
thority by issuing Executive Order 9250: (1) 
establishing a wage and salary policy provid¬ 
ing for increases or decreases only as approved 
by the War Labor Board, (2) directing estab¬ 
lishment of agricultural prices jointly by the 
Agriculture Department and OPA at about 
the September 15, 1942, level, (3) directing 
prevention of exorbitant profits through price 
ceilings, and the use of subsidies to insure 
production, maintain ceilings or prevent price 
increases. 

The President creates the Office of Eco¬ 
nomic Stabilization with authority over all 
agencies involved in the stabilization program, 
appoints James F. Byrnes Director of the 
Office. 





PRICE 

18th Wage increases requiring WLB approval not 
to be recognized as grounds for price increases 
unless approval is obtained and employer files 
prior notice of need. (SO 28) 

Individual adjustment provisions in GMPR and 
other regulations revoked to clear backlog of indi¬ 
vidual cases and concentrate on industry-wide 
changes. 

During the month MPR’s issued, extending price con¬ 
trol over: 

1st Beer. (MPR 259) 

1st Cigars. (MPR 260) 

4th Vinegar-cured Herring. (MPR 252) 

5th Construction Services and Installed Building 
Materials. (MPR 251) 

9th Poultry. (MPR 269) 

9th Dry Edible Beans. (MPR 270) 

11th Citrus Fruit. (MPR 292) 

13th Phonograph Records. (MPR 263) 

15th Farm Equipment. (MPR 246) 


RATIONING 

20th Coffee radoning begins. 

23d Registration of restaurants (Institutional 

to Users) for coffee rationing. 

25th 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Milton Klein made Director of Apparel and 
Industrial Materials Division, Enforcement 
Department. 

1st Henry S. Reuss made Assistant General Coun¬ 
sel for Industrial Materials Division. 

12th Robert W. Strauss, Assistant Deputy Adminis¬ 
trator for Information, succeeds Alvin Eurich 
as Acting Head of Community Service Division, 
Information Department. 

16th Frank E. Manuel becomes Director of Program 
Division, Rent Department. 

27th The Administrative Management Department 
created with Edward N. Hay as the first Dep¬ 
uty Administrator. (AO 65) 


RENT 

1st Eighty-one more areas under control, bringing 
every large city under control except New York. 


INFORMATION 

Start of publicity campaign to sell Nation-wide gaso¬ 
line rationing—companion campaigns for the Idle Tire 
Purchase Plan and for Car Sharing. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

11th House Small Business (Patman) Committee 
begins hearings in South and Southwest on 
impact of wartime controls on small business. 


November 1942 


OTHER EVENTS 

2d WPB announces Controlled Materials Plan 
(CMP) giving over-all control of production 
and use of basic materials in short supply. 

3d Off-year Congressional elections reduce Demo¬ 
cratic majorities. Some defeated Democrats 
blame Henderson for failure at polls. 

7th Americans land in North Africa. 

13th Draft age down to 18. 

13th Battle of Guadalcanal. 

19th Russians encircle German Army at Stalingrad. 

21st Herbert H. Lehman head of United Nations 
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration 
(UNRRA). 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 119.8 


up 

0.8 

from October 







December 1942 


PRICE 

During this month MPR’s issued, extending price 
control over: 

14 th Drugs and Cosmetics, Private Formula. 
(MPR 282) 

15th Women’s and Girls’Outerwear. (MPR 287) 
30th Dairy Products. (MPR 289) 

ENFORCEMENT 

Beginning of first continuing enforcement program— 
the meat program, under the meat price orders and in 
expectation of meat rationing. Immediate results: 
about 1,000 cases a month. 

LITIGATION 

4th OPA sues under Stabilization Act to prevent 
bus company from raising fares without op¬ 
portunity for OPA to be heard before ICC. 
Henderson v. Washington M & A Motor Lines. 
132 F (2d) 729. 


RATIONING 

1st Gasoline rationing extended Nation-wide. Idle 
tire surrender plan and the car-sharing cam¬ 
paign launched simultaneously. Gasoline ra¬ 
tioning zones the country into areas with differ¬ 
ent rations for each, depending on supply and 
transportation, the demands of war. 

1st Compulsory tire inspection for passenger cars. 

1st General Ration Order 11 requires restaurants 
and other institutional users to keep records of 
revenue, persons served during December 1942. 

19th Stoves are rationed in areas where fuel oil is 
rationed. 


LEGISLATION 

24th Federal Reports Act passed by Congress requir¬ 
ing Budget Bureau approval of all government 
questionnaires, public reporting and applica¬ 
tion forms. Budget Bureau interprets the 
Act to include approval of actions requiring 
use of forms or questionnaires. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

Fourth quarter 1942 


Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate) - 

War Spending (annual rate)-- 

Consumer Spending (annual rate) - 

Public Debt (end of quarter) - 

Hivilian EmDlovment (end of quarter) - 

$134.3 billion.... 
$69.2 billion.... 
$86.4 billion.... 
$112.5 billion.... 
54.1 million.. 

Up 6.9 percent. 

Up 18.9 percent. 

Up 4.1 percent. 

Up 23.5 percent. 

Off 3 percent. 


Up 0.6 from Nov. 

Up 8.4 from Jan. *42. 

Consumer rrice inae* i xv.n-— -- - -- 


RENT 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st 

Forty-three more areas are brought under con¬ 
trol including Biddeford, Maine, Santa Bar¬ 
bara, Calif. 

2d 

Petroleum controls are reorganized by the 
establishment of Petroleum Administration f 0r 
War (PAW). 

31st 

Total number of rent areas under control: 313, 

5th 

The draft of men over 38 is stopped. 


population 75,000,000. 

6th 

Control of the food supply shifted from WPB 
to the Agriculture Department. 



9th 

WMC freezes the jobs of 600,000 workers in 
Detroit. 



24th 

Darlan is assassinated at Algiers. 


ADMINISTRATION 

3d Regional Administrators instructed to set up 
regional distribution centers. Dallas center in 
operation by December 20. 

11th Richard V. Gilbert made Economic Adviser to 
the Administrator. 

18th Leon Henderson resigns as Price Administrator. 

19th Bernard F. Haley made the Director of the 
reorganized Textile, Leather, and Apparel Di¬ 
vision, replacing Burton E. Oppenheim. 

26th Byron S. Miller made Executive Officer of the 
Enforcement Department. 

31st The Congressional Information Unit set up. 
(AO 79) 

Total number of OPA full-time paid employees 

now about 40,000. 




























PRICE 


RATIONING 


13th Dollar-and-cent prices for 114 constructioris of 
fine cotton goods. (MPR 11) 

14th Uniform mark-ups replace base-period prices 
for bananas, cheese, butter, coffee, etc. (Am. 
1, MPR 268) Meanwhile controversy de¬ 
velops over plans for community flat ceilings 
in food stores. 

25th Cotton shirt manufacturers required to label 
garments for weight, quality, etc. (MPR 

304) 

First major step toward grade labeling taken in MPR 
138 for canned grapefruit juice. The order requires 
showing Department of Agriculture grade on the label. 

Regional Order 1 in New York (Region II) estab¬ 
lishes dollar-and-cent hard coal prices for New York 
City. The first Regional Order of its kind. 


7th Pleasure driving ban on East Coast announced. 

8th Essential salesman allowed gas for in-course- 
of-work driving up to 717 miles per month. 

27th Ration banking begins throughout Nation— 
on basis of experiment in New York State 
during October 1942. 


INFORMATION 

21st Administrator Brown in press conference ac¬ 
knowledges 6% rise in the cost of living an¬ 
ticipated for 1943, bringing increased pressure 
from labor for more vigorous steps to stop the 
rise. 

Campaign launched to explain point rationing of 
canned (processed) foods to the public and the gro¬ 
cery trade, pitched to the theme that rationing means 
fair sharing of scarce foods. 

Use of radio, magazines, and newspapers, enlisting 
aid from food companies in their advertising. A 
slide film for field meetings to explain point rationing 
to grocers. A short trailer for the news reels. Post¬ 
ers, mats, etc. 


ADMINISTRATION 


1st Patterson H. French succeeds Richard G. Get- 
tell as Director of Miscellaneous Products 
Rationing Division. (Shoes) 

1st Fleming James made Chief of Litigation 
Branch, Enforcement Department. 

20th Prentiss A. Brown becomes Administrator. 

23d A. Manning Shaw made Executive Officer 
for the Administrator. 

26th Ronald Seeley made Assistant to the Admin¬ 
istrator. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

19th Senate Small Business (Murray) Committee 
begins hearings on complaints against OPA: 
(1) failure to advise with industry, (2) 
mark-up techniques, (3) delays, (4) gas 
rationing. 


ACCOUNTING 

Audits of Government alcohol purchases under De¬ 
fense Supplies contracts become a regular part of OPA 
accounting activity. 


January 1943 

OTHER EVENTS 

7 th President Roosevelt in his message to Con¬ 
gress says that 7,000,000 men are now in the 
armed forces with half of them overseas. 

14th Casablanca conference. 

18th Russians lift siege of Leningrad. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 120.7 

up 

0.3 

from December 




February 1943 


PRICE 

13th Dairy farm prices for fluid milk frozen. (MPR 

329) 

With TMPR 28 issued to halt price rises on fresh 
tomatoes, snap beans, carrots, cabbage, and peas, it 
is estimated that approximately 93% of foods are 
under price control at retail. 

More than 150 roll-back actions taken since 1941. 


RATIONING 

7 th Shoe rationing begins. 

Ration Book 2 distributed through schools late 
in month, to be used entirely for food rationing. 


ENFORCEMENT 

1st Reorganization of Enforcement Department. 
Investigative staff integrated with legal staff. 
Manpower allocated along commodity lines. 

19th Hecht Co. Case—Federal District Court re¬ 
fuses OPA request for injunction against 
Washington department store on showing of 
several thousand violations, on firm’s plea of 
substantial compliance and good faith. OPA 
appeals. Brown v. Hecht Co., 49 F. Supp. 
528. 


LITIGATION 

25 th Rent controls held invalid as unconstitutional 
delegation of power to OPA, by Indiana Fed¬ 
eral District Court (Roach v. Johnson, 48 F. 
Supp. 833). Suit later dismissed by the Su¬ 
preme Court as brought by landlord and ten¬ 
ant in collusion. United States v. Johnson, 
319 U. S. 302. (May 24, 1943) 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 121.0 


up 

0.3 

from January 


ADMINISTRATION 


OTHER EVENTS 


2d Lou R. Maxon succeeds Robert W. Horton 
as Deputy Administrator for Information. 

5th Raymond McKeough succeeds John C. Weigel 
as Regional Administrator in Chicago. 

16th Shad Polier made Director of Fuel and 
Consumer Goods Enforcement Division. 


INFORMATION 

Continuing educational campaign on food point ra¬ 
tioning. 


2d Germans surrender at Stalingrad. 

6th General Eisenhower made Commander-in. 

Chief of Allied forces in North Africa. 

8th WMC Order setting 48-hour minimum work 
week. (Executive Order 9301) 

9th End of Jap resistance on Guadalcanal. 

19th Five hundred and thirty miles of the “Big Inch” 

pipeline opened from Long View, Texas, to 
Morris City, Illinois. 

20th Office of Civilian Supply issues program of 
“bedrock” civilian needs. 

The Department of Agriculture announces increases 

in support prices for major vegetable canning crops. 

Commodity Credit Corporation will pay subsidies to 

canners, to prevent retail price increases. 






PRICE 

1st Rabbit meat and live rabbits under price con¬ 
trol. (MPR 334) 

12th Dollar-and-cent ceilings on com from farm to 
retail. (MPR 346) 

Grade labels required for peas, tomatoes, and corn 
by amendments to MPR 306. 


RATIONING 

1st Processed foods rationing begins. 

1st Tire rationing extended to United States terri¬ 
tories and possessions. 

1st General Ration Order 5 sets up system for 
distribution for all rationed foods to institu¬ 
tional users in three groups: boarding houses, 
prisons and other institutions, restaurants. 
Registration required. 

1st Institutional and industrial users in the food 
program enter ration banking. 

1st Local Board Loose-Leaf Service started. 

11th Procedure set up for replacing lost ration 
books. (PR 12) 

29th Meats and fats rationing begins; program also 
includes butter, cheese, and canned fish. 

Envelopes used for depositing food stamps in banks. 

Stamps and coupons for other programs are pasted 

on gummed sheets furnished by OPA. 


ADMINISTRATION 


March 1943 


1st Office of the Hearing Administrator set up to 
determine ration suspension cases (GO 46), 
Charles L. Ferguson made Hearing Admin¬ 
istrator. 

2d Clyde Herring made Senior Executive Officer 
for the Administrator. 

11th Kenneth W. Rowe succeeds Laurence C. Vass 
as Executive Officer in the Price Department. 

18th James Derieux succeeds Oscar R. Strauss as 
Regional Administrator in Atlanta. 

26th J. Paul Leonard made Director of Community 
Service Division, Information Department, suc¬ 
ceeding Acting Director Robert W. Strauss. 

31st Durant Rose succeeds George C. S. Benson as 
Head of Administrative Services. 

Establishment of Services and Consumer Durable 
Goods Price Division, Merle Fainsod, Director (AO 
78). End of Retail Trade and Services Division. 

Administrator Brown reported seeking a sales- 
minded executive as Deputy Administrator. 

ACCOUNTING 

Hudson River Valley Area Brick Formula developed. 
This pricing standard was later applied in the cement, 
drain-tile, and other building-material industries which 
were operating at depressed volume. 


OTHER EVENTS 

3d Russians capture Rzhev. 

4th Allies win Battle of the Bismarck Sea. 

10th Truman Committee files second annual report 
on war production. 

29th British Eighth Army outflanks Mareth Line 
in North Africa. 

31st The Russian winter offensive takes about 
350,000 prisoners in four months and twenty 
days. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

First quarter 1943 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)_ 

War Spending (annual rate)___ __.. 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)___ 

Public Debt (end of quarter)____ 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter) 

_ $142.5 billion.... 

- $76.0 billion_ 

-- $89.2 billion_ 

- $119.9 billion_ 

- 52.5 million... 

Up 6.1 percent. 

Up 9.8 percent. 

Up 3.2 percent. 

Up 6.6 percent. 

Off 3 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 122.8_ 

Up 1.8 From February. 


















RATIONING 


April 1943 


PRICE 

1st First dollar-and-cent food prices at retail for 
pork cuts: 4,140 separate prices for 230 cuts 
in two classes of stores in eleven zones. (MPR 
336) 

7th Service regulation amended to permit c eilin g 
price adjustments of essential services like laun¬ 
dries. (Am. 20, MPR 165) 

12th Regional Offices given authority to freeze 
restaurant prices at prices for the period April 
4 to 10, 1943 (GO 50). Region IV issues the 
first order. 

15th Cents-per-pound ceilings placed on beef, veal, 
lamb, mutton in ten zones. Prices reduced one 
to three cents a pound from originally an¬ 
nounced levels due to Hold-the-Line Order. 

22d Poultry ceilings changed from delivered price 
to f. o. b. basis. (Am. 8, MPR 269) 

30th Administrator Brown announces roll-back pol¬ 
icy under the Hold-the-Line Order. 


5th Shoes enter ration banking. 

First food point chart issued as education continues 
on point rationing. 

New fuel-oil program for the season 1943-44 with 
simplified procedures and some increases for smaller 
homes. 

Mexicans living near the United States border get 
rations for processed food, meats, fats, and shoes. 


ACCOUNTING 

10th Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 7 deals 
with treatment of overtime in OPA cost 
studies. 

21st The first appearance of an OPA accountant 
before the Interstate Commerce Commission 
as an expert witness in a common carrier rate 
case. 


ENFORCEMENT 

22d Nation-wide drive on poultry black markets. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 124.1 


up 

1.3 

from March 


ADMINISTRATION 

2d Information Deputy Maxon to clear all policy 
decisions. Order revoked two days later. 

2d End of lawyers’ veto power over administrative 
and policy decisions. Legal staffs assigned to 
Price, Rent, and Rationing as counsel to oper¬ 
ating officials. (AO 79) 

21st George J. Burke succeeds David Ginsburg as 
General Counsel. 

23d Frank E. Marsh succeeds Harry F. Camp as 
Regional Administrator in San Francisco. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

24th Patman Committee starts hearings on petro¬ 
leum industry’s request for higher prices, led 
by independent producers. 


LITIGATION 

5th Supreme Court sustains OPA right to be heard 
before proper regulatory commission before 
utility rates are raised. Henderson v. Wash¬ 
ington M & A Motor Lines, 318 U. S. 779. 


OTHER EVENTS 

8th President Roosevelt’s Hold-the-Line Order 
announced. It directs (1) OPA to pl ace 
ceilings on all cost-of-living items. Reduce 
those priced excessively high and refuse fur- 
ther price increases. (2) WLB and Bureau 
of Internal Revenue to permit no further wage 
or salary increases. (3) WMC to forbid 
hiring of workers at higher wages for same 
work than paid in former job. (4) All agen¬ 
cies with authority over common carriers to 
refuse rate increases, arrange reductions. (5) 
The OES under James F. Byrnes to be re¬ 
sponsible for consistent administration of the 
Order. 

14th A. D. Whiteside of Dun and Bradstreet named 
WPB Vice Chairman for Civilian Require¬ 
ments. 

19th War Food Administration (WFA) established. 

19th Restriction Order No. 1 with jurisdiction over 
the slaughter of meat transferred from OPA 
to WFA. 

19th Solid Fuels Administration established. 

28th New York State makes violation of OPA reg¬ 
ulations a State offense. 

OES announces subsidies will absorb cost increases 
since 1942 on 1943 fruit and vegetable packs. 

Subsidies extended to hold retail milk prices in three 
large Eastern cities. 

John L. Lewis asks two-dollar-a-day increase for 
miners causing a two-day work stoppage which sets 
off a two-month crisis over coal production and wage 
stabilization. 

President vetoes Bankhead Farm Parity Bill to ex¬ 
clude subsidies from parity calculation. 






PRICE 

10th General program to reduce cost of foods to 
to consumers. Dollar-and-cent prices at retail 

17th on all major food items, with ceiling prices set 
by field offices for each community, by four 
types of stores. OPA to issue ceiling price 
lists, and require their posting in stores. 

15th Rayon hosiery prices reduced—quality infor¬ 
mation and retail ceiling price must be stamped 
on hose. (MPR 339) 

A roll-back of about 10 percent accomplished on 
meat, coffee, and butter through subsidies. 

Request of the Petroleum Administrator for general 
petroleum price increase denied. 

During the Month 

Nine orders issued extending price control to flaxseed, 
sale and rental of used household washing machines, 
among other things. 

Thirty-one dollar-and-cent price actions issued in¬ 
cluding household soaps and cleansers, potatoes and 
onions for country shippers, linseed oil, Afghanistan 
camel hair, war alarm clocks. 

Twenty-two roll-back actions including tuna fish at 
retail, processed ham at retail, and mixed feed at retail. 

Thirty-nine price increase actions issued including 
feed for chicks, prime grade hardwood logs, unsalted 
butter, raw feathers and down, potatoes at the farm 
level, and iron and steel scrap. 


INFORMATION 

Extra food points for Information Deputy Maxon’s 
summer lodge get unfavorable publicity. 


RATIONING 

14th A five-gallon furlough ration of gasoline for 
servicemen announced. 

19th Local police asked to help enforce pleasure 
driving ban in Eastern States. Check of race 
tracks, beaches, etc. 

20th Used tubes released from rationing. 

22d Applications for Ration Book 3 distributed by 
the Post Office in preparation for issuing books 
by mail. Book 3 was an all-purpose book 
usable for clothing and other commodities as 
well as food, if needed. 

Home canning sugar allowance announced as five 
pounds per person; later increased to ten pounds per 
person. 

The validity of some food stamps extended to relieve 
congestion in stores on expiration date. 

ENFORCEMENT 

7th Mars Candy Bar Case—Circuit Court of Ap¬ 
peals reverses Kansas City district judge who 
refused OPA an injunction against firm for 
cutting weights of its candy bars while charging 
same price in violation of GMPR. Brown v. 
Mars, Inc., 135 F. (2d) 843; cert, den., 320 
U. S. 798 (December 1943). 

26th Department of Justice authorizes referral of 
criminal cases directly to United States District 
Attorneys in the field; OPA district offices 
authorized to refer cases without Washington 
clearance. 

Local Boards given authority to revoke consumer 
gasoline rations for violations. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

18th House Select (Smith) Committee to Investi¬ 
gate Executive Agencies begins hearings on 
charges that OPA rent control measures exceed 
legal authority. 


ADMINISTRATION 


May 1943 


19th Elliot Marple becomes Chief of News Branch, 
Information Department, succeeding Ralph R. 
Hotchkiss. 

19th Resignation of Merle Fainsod, Director of 
Services and Consumer Durable Goods Price 
Division. 

As part of the general program to reduce food costs, 
price panels are set up in Local Boards with a goal 
of 20,000 volunteer workers. 

Survey of food prices in coal-mining towns shows 
widespread ceiling violations. 

Resignation of some officials in the Food Price Di¬ 
vision over food-price policy issues. 


LITIGATION 

7th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains ceilings 
on safe deposit box rentals under MPR 165 as 
within OPA powers, brushing aside the argu¬ 
ment that direct effect on cost of living were 
negligible. Lincoln Savings Bank v. Brown, 
137 (2d) 228. 

10th Supreme Court sustains lower federal court 
dismissal of injunction suit by New Jersey 
meat wholesalers to prevent United States Dis¬ 
trict Attorney from prosecuting them for over¬ 
ceiling sales. Equity jurisdiction to restrain 
enforcement of OPA regulations is vested ex¬ 
clusively in the Emergency Court of Appeals. 
Lockerty v. Phillips, 319 U. S. 182. 

28th Emergency Court of Appeals hands down first 
rent decision, sustaining rent regulation in 
Bridgeport, Conn., area with April 1, 1941, 
base date. Chatlos v. Brown, 136 F. (2d) 
490. 

28th Emergency Court of Appeals holds exemption 
of public utilities from OPA ceilings does not 
extend to warehouses, even though they are 
regulated as utilities under some State laws. 
Davies Warehouse Co. v. Brown, 137 F. (2d) 
201 . 


OTHER EVENTS 

3d UN Conference of food and agriculture at Hot 
Springs, Virginia. 

7 th Axis surrender at Tunis ends Tunisian cam¬ 

paign. 

11th United States forces land on Attu in Aleutians. 

15th As a result of OPA action the Interstate Com¬ 
merce Commission suspends general freight 
rate increase authorized in March 1942. This 
action was taken in accordance with the Hold- 
the-Line Policy. 

19th ODT restricts retail deliveries by type of mer¬ 
chandise. 

27 th President Roosevelt creates the Office of War 
Mobilization by Executive Order 9347, to de¬ 
velop “unified programs” and “harmonize 
Government activities.” James F. Byrnes 
made Director of OWM, Fred M. Vinson be¬ 
coming Director of the Office of Economic 
Stabilization. 

OPA’s “professors and economists” become special 
target of business and Congressional attacks. 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revises retail food 
price index. 

Coal crisis continues, Government seizes mines. 

WMC issues an order prohibiting shifting of em¬ 
ployees to higher paid jobs for same class of work. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 125.1 

up 

1.0 

from April 






June 1943 

PRICE 

5th To close a loophole, brokerage fees to relatives 
and partners ruled out for waste paper pur¬ 
chasers—one of many situations where a sim¬ 
ilar problem developed. (Am. 3, MPR 30) 

10th First roll-back subsidy, 5 cents on butter, pushes 
price down from about 46 cents to 41 cents at 
the creamery. 

21st Subsidies reduce price of meat an average of 
10 percent or 3 cents a pound. 

29th Women’s and girls’ seasonal clothing under a 
single cost-plus regulation. (RMPR 287) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Ten actions extending price control, including farm 
butter, low grade used tires, com products for live¬ 
stock feed. 

Twenty-six dollar-and-cent actions, including vari¬ 
ety meats at wholesale, and new ice boxes. 

Fifteen roll-back actions including secondary alumi¬ 
num ingots, mechanical rubber goods, film scrap. 

Thirty-three price increases including twist tobacco, 
Western pine, certain fine cotton goods, box veneer, 
whisky. 

ADMINISTRATION 

13th Procedure for Industry Advisory Committees 
established. (PR 13) 

13th Richard B. Heflebower succeeds Austin C. 
Hoffman as Director of the Food Price 
Division. 

19th Court Review, Research and Opinion Division 
set up. (AO 83) 

26th Ellsworth E. Clark succeeds Thomas Harris as 
Associate General Counsel for Rationing. 

29th Paul M. Green succeeds Herbert F. Taggart as 
Director of Accounting Division. 

J. Kenneth Galbraith resigns as Deputy Administra¬ 
tor for Price. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 


Second quarter 1943 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate) 

War Spending (annual rate)__ 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)_ 

Public Debt fend of quarter). _ 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter).. 

_ $147.8 billion.... 

_ $83.1 billion._ 

_ $90.0 billion_ 

_ $140.8 billion_ 

53.8 million... 

Up 3.7 percent. 

Up 9.3 percent. 

Up 0.9 percent. 

Up 17.4 percent. 

Up 2.5 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 124.8 __ 

Down 0.3 from May. 
Up12.1 from Jan.'42. 

Up 4.1 from Jan. ’43. 



OTHER EVENTS 


RATIONING 

1st Soft cheese and canned milk added to the red- 
point program. 

1st Gasoline bulk consumers enter ration banking. 

2d Banks required to spot check ration-stamp en¬ 
velopes. Heavy protest from banks (1,084 
out of about 15,000). 

15th First shoe stamp expires, jams shoe stores. 

16th First formal discussion with trade looking to 
use of ration tokens for making change. 

Ration Book 3 distribution by mail proceeds. 

Value of B and C gasoline coupons cut from 3 to 2/4 
gallons in Eastern shortage area. 

New gasoline truck coupons issued to help prevent 
misuse. 

Differential food rationing for isolated workers such 
as sheep herders. Loggers get extra meat ration to 
help stabilize labor situation. 

Coffee ration increased because of greater stocks. 


RENT 

1st Single regulation for houses; single regulation 
for hotels and rooming houses. 

Petition of Detroit landlords for rent increases 
denied. 


ACCOUNTING 

12th Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 8 estab¬ 
lishes OPA policy on determination of net 
worth (invested capital) and net income. 

24th Accounting Policy Memorandum No. 9 estab¬ 
lishes OPA policy on the treatment of propri¬ 
etary salaries and related items in unincorpo¬ 
rated enterprises. 


9th Congress puts income tax on pay-as-you-go 
basis, raises rates. 

30th United States Forces land on Munda in the 
Solomons. 

Allied shipping losses from submarines off sharply. 

Congress passes Smith-Connally Act over the Presi¬ 
dent’s veto as coal crisis continues. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

4th House Interstate Commerce (Boren) Subcom¬ 
mittee on Brands and Newsprint holds hear¬ 
ings on canners’ complaints against regional 
flat pricing of canned goods. 


LEGISLATION 

1st Congress appropriates $155,000,000 for the 
fiscal year 1944, with a rider requiring policy¬ 
determining officials to have business 
experience. 

ENFORCEMENT 

7 th District Offices authorized to file civil suits 

without Washington clearance. 

LITIGATION 

4th Albert B. Maris made Chief Judge of the 
Emergency Court of Appeals, succeeding Fred 
M. Vinson. Bolitha J. Laws appointed 
Judge of the Court. 



















PRICE 


RATIONING 


10th Ceilings set for 1943 pack of major vegetables. 
(Am. 9, MPR 306) 

10th Fresh fish under control at roll-back dollar- 
to and-cent prices. (MPR 418, 419) 

13th 

15th Chicago price of live hogs over 240 pounds 
reduced to discourage heavy com feeding. 

26th Community ceilings extended to all dry and 
perishable groceries not previously covered un¬ 
der over-all fixed mark-up regulations. Ceil¬ 
ings to be recalculated weekly, with posting re¬ 
quired. (MPR 421, 422, 423) 

26th Uniform mark-ups for manufacturers of fall 
and winter utility garments. Order issued but 
effective date postponed six times to January 1, 
1945. (MPR 438) 

During the Month 

Eight actions extending price control including food 
served on railroads and fresh berries at about 50 per¬ 
cent below market prices. 

Thirty-seven dollar-and-cent actions including rain¬ 
coats and fabric, wheat millfeed, processed eggs and 
egg products. 

Twelve roll-back actions including used typewriters, 
lettuce and cabbage. 

Twenty-four actions increasing prices including 
canned spinach, matches, dry onions, logging services, 
frozen horse meat, maple flooring, animal protein 
feeds. 


1st Fuel oil enters ration banking. 

28th Coffee rationing ends. 

29th Plans for establishment of truck tire boards, 
with jurisdiction over several local boards. 

30th Huaraches rationed under the shoe program. 

Gasoline A Book holders may take one vacation trip 
with local board approval. Ease on the pleasure¬ 
driving ban. 

Gasoline coupons must be “endorsed” with license 
numbers by July 22. New A Books issued. 

Distribution troubles with Ration Book 3 in several 
areas. 

Punch cards furnished to Mexicans living near 
United States border. Cards deposited with dealers 
tie family to dealer. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st OPA’s appropriation for fiscal year 1944— 
$155,000,000. 

19th Harold Leventhal, Assistant General Counsel, 
resigns. 

25th Dexter M. Keezer resigns as Deputy Admin¬ 
istrator for Professional Services. 

27th Chester Bowles made General Manager. 


RENT 


28th Landlords renting rooms in their own houses 
may evict according to the local law. 


INFORMATION 

15th Deputy Administrator Maxon resigns, issues 
press release blasting OPA economists and 
professors. 


ENFORCEMENT 

22d Hecht Co. Case—D. C. Court of Appeals 
holds granting of injunction is mandatory on 
OPA request where violations are shown, re¬ 
gardless of defendant’s good faith. 137 F. 
(2d) 689. 


July 1943 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st Agreement on petroleum policy—WPB, PAW, 
OPA, ODT. 

10th Allies land on Sicily—conquest in thirty-eight 
days by August 17. 

14th WPB announces 6-point plan to prevent 
clothes rationing. 

15th Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) replaces 
OEW with Leo Crowley in charge. 

19th Final section of “Big Inch” pipeline sealed at 
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. 

19th Rome bombed. Also Cologne, Essen, and 
Hamburg. 

25th Benito Mussolini out of office. 

CCC extension authorizes continuance of subsidies 

but forbids grade labeling and restricts use of stand¬ 
ards. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 123.9 


down 

0.9 

from June 




August 1943 


PRICE 

Grade labeling provisions removed from orders for 
butter, anti-freeze, certain packed foods and other 
products. 

Reporting provisions of GMPR relaxed for retailers 
selling cost-of-living commodities. 

Diamonds removed from price control. 

During the Month 

Ten orders extending price control, including Califor¬ 
nia grapes, linseed oil, standing timber. 

Thirty-five dollar-and-cent actions including coal 
tar, certain book and writing papers. 

Ten roll-back actions including shell eggs at whole¬ 
sale, whiskey. 

Thirty-eight actions increasing prices including spin¬ 
ach, newsprint, certain frozen foods, certain Southern 
hardwood boards, cotton ginning services, potato chips, 
cotton. 


RATIONING 

24th Nation-wide stove rationing begins, extending 
control to all types of stoves. 

Value of A, B, and G gasoline coupons cut from 4 
gallons to 3 gallons in the Midwest and Southwest. 

Industrial sugar allotments up 10 percent, reflecting 
improvement in shipping. 

Consumers of fuel oil no longer required to convert 
to coal where possible. 

Point charts mailed direct to food stores for the first 
time, formerly distributed through post offices and 
trade associations. 


LITIGATION 

6th Emergency Court of Appeals sends meat pack¬ 
ers’ protest against denial of adjustment back 
to OPA for further consideration. Armour v. 
Brown, 137 F. (2d) 233. 


INFORMATION 

Home Front Pledge Campaign launched. Consum¬ 
ers urged to sign a pledge supporting the government’s 
price control and rationing programs. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 123.4 


down 

0.5 

from July 


ADMINISTRATION 

16th James F. Brownlee becomes Deputy Adminis¬ 
trator for Price, Donald H. Wallace made his 
Economic Adviser. 

17th James F. King made Deputy Administrator for 
Information. 

18th Reagan Connally made Director of the new 
Consumer Goods Price Division, including tex¬ 
tiles, leather, apparel, and durable goods. 
Stephen Ailes made Division Counsel. 

26th George E. Palmer succeeds Robert Wales as 
Head of Legal Division, Rent Department. 

James G. Rogers, Jr. named Assistant General 

Manager. 


OTHER EVENTS 

1 st Allies bomb Ploesti oil fields in Rumania. 

5th Russians take Orelle and Belgorod. 

5 th Sweden cancels agreement to allow transport 
of German soldiers within its borders. 

11th Quebec conference of Allied Leaders. 

21st Gromyko succeeds Litvinov as Soviet Ambas¬ 
sador to the United States. 

23d Russians take Kharkov. 

OES Regulation No. 1 requires continuance of meat 
grade labeling in accordance with the Taft Amend¬ 
ment. 




PRICE 

1st Catch-all regulation with formula pricing for 
used consumer durables. (MPR 429) 

13th Bowles announces subsidy program on foods. 

Removal of grade labeling provision in the orders for 
eggs and egg products, rayon hosiery, meats. 

A total of 250 price regulations amended to 
conform to the provisions prohibiting grade labeling, 
many without substantive change. 

Uniform licensing provisions for all regulations. 

Flint grit (used in poultry feed) exempt from price 
control. 

During the Month 

Nine orders extending price control including broom 
com, fresh grapes, and apples at retail. 

Thirty-three actions setting dollar-and-cent prices in¬ 
cluding book matches, frozen peeled shrimp. 

Six roll-back actions including meat in group three 
and four stores cotton seed oil. 

Forty-one actions increasing prices including im¬ 
ported watch and clock movements, glass curtains, 
stock millwork (doors, windows, etc.), salt fish, jams, 
jellies, and preserves. 

INFORMATION 

“Home Front Pledge” campaign continues. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

30th Senate Agriculture Committee holds hearing on 
milk ceilings and subsidies. 


RATIONING 

1st Ban on pleasure driving ends. 

Gasoline coupon value reduced in the East. 

Permit instead of coupons issued for special gasoline 

rations. 

Bee keepers get more sugar. 

Fuel order in the Northwest adds coal to wood 

already rationed. 

Shoe stamps to be good indefinitely—thus prevent¬ 
ing another buying rush like June’s. 

Pork and butter points up. 

ADMINISTRATION 

1st Six district offices closed: Norfolk, Va., Tampa, 
Fla., Knoxville, Tenn., Pierre, S. Dak., Bis¬ 
marck, N. Dak., Rockford, Ill. 

2d Regional and district officials given full author¬ 
ity over appointment and removal of field per¬ 
sonnel, also fuller direction of all field opera¬ 
tions. National Office supervision of field 
operations sharply reduced. (AO 4 Rev.) 

3d John E. Hamm resigns as Senior Deputy 
Administrator. 

4th James P. Davis succeeds Rupert Emerson as 
Regional Administrator of Region IX (Terri¬ 
tories and Possessions). 

11th David Cobb made Assistant General Counsel 
for Food Price Division. 

11th Leigh Athem made Director of Rent and 
Services Enforcement Division. 

14th Enforcement set up as a separate department, 
T. I. Emerson becoming Deputy Administrator 
for Enforcement. 

21st Glendon J. Mowitt succeeds Edward N. Hay 
as Deputy Administrator for Administrative 
Management. 

26th Jean F. Carroll becomes Director of the Food 
Price Division, succeeding Richard B. Hefle- 
bower, who becomes Economic Adviser to the 
Division. 


RENT 


15th Rent control in Miami, Florida. 


ADMINISTRATION—Continued 

27th Professional Services Department (formerly 
General Services Department) abolished. 
Standards and Transportation and Public 
Utilities Divisions transferred to the Price De¬ 
partment; Accounting Division to the Office 
of the General Manager; Research Division 
to the Office of the Economic Adviser. (AO 
67 Rev.) 

27th Clarence W. Slocum made Director of Indus¬ 
trial Materials Price Division, previously under 
Clair Wilcox and Industrial Manufacturing 
Price Division previously under Donald H. 
Wallace. 


September 1943 


OTHER EVENTS 

8th United States Fifth Army into Salerno, Italy. 

15th Colonel Bradley Dewey succeeds William Jef¬ 
fers as Rubber Director. 

17th President Roosevelt asks for “GI Bill of Rights.” 

25 th Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) 
established combining BEW, OLLA. 

25th Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., succeeds Sumner 
Welles as Under Secretary of State. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

Third quarter 1943 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)_ ........ $151,7 hilljon 

War Spending (annual rate)........ $82.8 billion 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)....... $92.2 billion 

Public Debt (end of quarter) . . _ _ $167,3 billion 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter).____ 55.1 million 

Up 2.6 percent. 

Off 0.4 percent. 

Up 2.4 percent. 

Up 15.3 percent. 

Up 2.4 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 123.9.. . . . . 

Up 0.5 from August. 

















October 1943 


PRICE 

4th Price ceilings for live hogs at the producer level. 
First ceilings on live stock. 

11th Individual adjustment made available to iron 
castings manufacturers. (Am. 6, MPR 244; 
Am. 5, MPR 241) 

Regional offices given full authority to adjust milk 
producer and (bulk) wholesale ceilings in small cities. 

Wild rice exempt from price control. 

Price of small, hand water pumps increased 20 per¬ 
cent to induce resumption of production, as requested 
by OES. 

During the Month 

Thirteen orders extending price control issued, in¬ 
cluding household goods at auction, tequila, white 
snapped com, and table apples. 

Thirty-nine actions setting dollar-and-cent prices, in¬ 
cluding wiping cloths, boy’s’ bib overalls. 

Twelve actions rolling back prices, including rabbit 
feed and unfinished rice. 

Thirty-one actions increasing prices, including used 
egg cases, general-manager-type grain doors, rayon 
hosiery, grapefruit. 


RATIONING 

3d Pork, butter, and cheese points up. 

20th Ration Book 4 distributed through schools, 
to Book designed primarily for food—could be 
25 th used for a number of other purposes. 

31st Jams, jellies, and preserves rationed under the 
processed foods program. 

Gasoline B and C coupons reduced to 2 gallons east 
of the Rockies, A coupons to 2 gallons in 17 Eastern 
States. 

Canvas- or cloth-top shoes with composition soles 
released from rationing. 

Holiday sugar for candy, soft drink, and other indus¬ 
trial users. 


ACCOUNTING 

OPA accountants make the first survey of rental oper¬ 
ating costs in New York City, the most extensive rent 
survey conducted up to this time. It will serve as the 
basis of OPA’s defense in protest cases. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 124.4 


up 

0.5 

from September 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Tom Tippett succeeds Ivan Carson as Direc¬ 
tor of Operations Division, Rent Department. 

7th Walter S. Straub succeeds Harold W. Rowe 
as Director of Food Rationing Division. 

11th Leo F. Gentner succeeds Frank E. Marsh as 
Regional Administrator in San Francisco, who 
becomes Director of Field Operations in the 
National Office. 

11th Charles J. Walsh succeeds Seymour E. Harris 
in the Export-Import Office. 

16th James F. King resigns as Information Deputy. 

16th Ivan Carson replaces Paul A. Porter as Deputy 
Administrator for Rent. 

21st Prentiss M. Brown resigns as Administrator. 

Bryan Houston replaces Paul M. O’Leary as Deputy 
Administrator for Rationing. O’Leary and Porter, 
the last of Henderson’s program deputies to leave 
OPA. 

Five district offices close: Springfield and Worces¬ 
ter, Mass., Rochester, N. Y., Dayton, Ohio, South 
Bend, Ind. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

27th House Agriculture Committee hears protests 
against proposed livestock ceilings and sub¬ 
sidies. 


OTHER EVENTS 

5th Truman’s Senate Committee report urges at¬ 
tention to problems of contract termination 
surplus property disposal. 

6th Bernard M. Baruch named Director for War 
and Postwar Adjustment Policies in Office of 
War Mobilization. 

7th United States Forces in Naples. 




RATIONING 


PRICE 

1st Subsidy and roll-back on peanut butter. (Am 
4, RMPR 335) 

1st, Hard and soft coal and coke prices up, to re- 
24th, fleet wage increases. Retroactive to May, with 
29th OES approval. (Am. 15, MPR 112; Am. 73 
MPR 120; Am. 4, RPS 29) 

6th Dollar-and-cent prices for soft wheat east of the 
Rocky Mountains. 

12th Turned and shaped wood products put on a 
cost-plus basis. (Order 5, MPR 143) 

16th New ceilings for apples reflected in higher ceil¬ 
ings for apple products. (MPR 493) 

Beef slaughterers’ subsidies overhauled, differen¬ 
tials introduced with penalties on livestock purchases 
outside official range. (For instance, Chicago choice 
$ 15 to $ 16.) OES directive. 

During the Month 

Eight orders extending price control including edible 
tree nuts, recapping for passenger tires. 

Thirty-two dollar-and-cent actions including rubber 
hose and belting, cast-iron fireplace grates, hard candy, 
chocolate-covered ice-cream cones, fertilizers. 

Six roll-back actions, including butter. 

Forty-seven actions increasing prices, including oak 
flooring, paper board, industrial alcohol, automotive 
parts for obsolete vehicles, Appalachian hardwood, 
bobbins, and glue. 


Pork and pork-product point values cut, reflecting 
heavy civilian supply increase. 

Gift-size jams and jellies removed from rationing. 


ADMINISTRATION 

8th Chester Bowles sworn in as Administrator. 

20th George J. Burke resigns as General Counsel. 

22d Daniel P. Woolley succeeds Sylvan Joseph as 
Regional Administrator in New York. 

25th H. H. Williamson becomes Agricultural Ad¬ 
viser to the Administrator. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

15th Senate Agriculture Committee hears further 
attacks on food subsidies. 


RENT 


1st Rent control for New York City, bringing na¬ 
tional rent control coverage to 86,000,000 
people. 


INFORMATION 

Administrator Bowles starts weekly broadcast over na¬ 
tional hook-up (ABC), carried at beginning by about 
80 stations. Later, with transcriptions, the number of 
stations was increased to about 465—roughly half the 
stations in the country. 

Bowles hails 12,000,000 who signed the “Home 
Front Pledge.” 


November 1943 

OTHER EVENTS 

1st Americans into Bougainville. 

19th Paper conservation urged by WPB. 

20th Americans into Tarawa. 

22d Cairo Conference—Roosevelt, Churchill, and 
to Chiang Kai-shek. 

26 th 

26th Vinson Directive (OES) instructs WPB to 
program production in lines of short supply, 
instructs OPA to raise prices where price is an 
impediment to production, with each action 
subject to OES review. 

27 th Teheran Conference begins—R oosevelt, 

Churchill, Stalin. 

Ickes-Lewis wage agreement. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 124.2 


down 

0.2 

from October 




December 1943 


PRICE 

1st New York laundries get dollar-and-cent prices 
to replace March 1942 prices. Slightly higher 
to reflect wage increases. (SSR 20, MPR165) 

1st Premium for late season shipment of iron ore 
on the Great Lakes—at ODT and WPB re¬ 
quest. (Am. 53, RSR 14) 

4th Packers of frozen fruits and vegetables allowed 
price rise if wage increases have WLB approval. 
(Am. 5, 6, MPR 409) 

6th Com ceilings raised to reflect parity increase. 
(2d RMPR 346) 

13 th Aluminum scrap reduced in line with market 
prices, reflecting adequate supplies of virgin 
aluminum. (Am. 3, MPR 2) 

15th Retroactive price increases for 1943 on Mesabi 
iron ore, first change since 1941. (RMPR 
113) 

17th Household furniture up 5 percent for manufac¬ 
turer. Retailer absorption required. First 
major durable goods cost absorption action. 
(Order 1052, MPR 188) 

20th Pricing new brands of beer tightened. (Am. 
3, MPR 259) 


PRICE—Continued 

27th Adjustments in repair sendees prices to reflect 
overtime wage rates. (SSR21,22,M PR 165) 

28th Cotton seed prices up following subsidy re¬ 
moval. (Am. 10, MPR 53) 

29th Canned fruits and vegetable prices up when 
packed in glass instead of tin. Price of con¬ 
tents remains the same. (Am. 22, MPR 306) 

During the Month 

Seven orders extending price control including vege¬ 
table seeds, oats, barley, and sorghum grains, fresh 
sweet potatoes, pop com. 

Twenty-six dollar-and-cent actions including hand- 
hooked cotton rugs, Appalachian hardwood lumber. 

Fifteen actions reducing prices including sisal rope, 
other products. 

Sixty-five actions increasing prices including West 
Coast construction lumber, North Central hardwood 
lumber, burley tobacco, grape juice. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

Fourth quarter 1943 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)- 

War Spending (annual rate)..-- 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)..-- 

Public Debt (end of quarter)- 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter)- 

SI 55.5 billion._ 

$83.3 billion— 
$93.8 billion— 
$170.1 billion.... 
52.5 million... 

Up 2.5 percent. 

Up 0.6 percent. 

Up 1.7 percent. 

Up 4.8 percent. 

Off 4.7 percent. 


Up 0.2 from Nov. 

Up 12.2 from Jan. '42. 

consumer r iiiuka i - - * 

Up 3.7 from Jan. ’43. 


RATIONING 

1st Recapping of truck tires removed from ra¬ 
tioning. 

1st Typewriter rationing eased because of limited 
resumption of manufacture. 

1st Large food dealers allowed to deposit stamps 
without sorting. 

4th Reduced point values on processed foods if 
sold 25 percent below ceiling, ration free if 
sold 50 percent below ceiling when foods are in 
danger of spoiling. 

5th New reduction in red point values brings civil¬ 
ian rations to the highest point since the start 
of rationing. 

9th Payment of two red (meat-fat) points per 
pound authorized for salvaged fat turned in by 
consumers. 

14th Central truck tire inspection stations to be set 
up. 

15th Reregistration of all industrial users of rationed 
food. 

20th Tightened eligibility provisions for gasoline ra¬ 
tioning, with salesmen excluded. 

22d A pork bonus given consumers, with a spare 
stamp made good for five points. 

29th Plant area boards authorized for certifying gas¬ 
oline applications of workers. 

RENT 

Total number of rent areas under control: 344, total 

population 86,000,000. 

ENFORCEMENT 

15th Debiting program instituted in gasoline ration¬ 
ing enforcement; counterfeit and other invalid 
coupons charged back against inventory of 
dealer who turned them in. 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st Teheran meeting of Roosevelt, Stalin, and 
Churchill ends. 

22d Clayton, Missouri school children urge Con¬ 
gress to control inflation. 

24th General Eisenhower named to command in¬ 
vasion army. 

ADMINISTRATION 

3d Zenas Potter becomes Congressional Adviser to 
the Administrator. 

11th Frederick Roselius made Director of the New 
Services and Foreign Trade Price Division. 

13th New York City District Office combined with 
New York Regional Office. 

14th Bernard J. Oliver succeeds H. Burke Fry as 
Budget Director. 

15th Wallace S. Sayre succeeds Kenneth O. Warner 
as Personnel Director. 

16th Chester H. Whelden, Jr. made Director of Ad¬ 
ministrative Planning, Division of the Adminis¬ 
trative Management Department. 

17th Walter A. O’Meara made Deputy Administra¬ 
tor for Information. 

26th Richard H. Field becomes General Counsel. 


INFORMATION 

Beginning of weekly broadcasts by District Directors. 
Programs written in Washington, broadcast locally. 

LITIGATION 

9th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains validity 
of GMPR. Philadelphia Coke Co. v. Bowles, 
139 F. (2d) 349. 























PRICE 


RATIONING 


1st Specific pricing of all wheat completed by ex¬ 
tension of control to hard grain, prices to re¬ 
flect parity exclusive of subsidies. (RMPR 

487) 

4th Exempt from price control commodities pro¬ 
duced at home in small quantities. (Am. 40, 
RSR 1) 

15th Rayon hosiery regulation overhauled. Pre¬ 
miums allowed for nationally advertised brands, 
etc. (2d RMPR 339) 

26th Wild rabbits under control at 30tf a head. 
(Am. 2, MPR 334) 

During the Month 

Seven orders extending price control including coco¬ 
nuts. 

Twenty dollar-and-cent actions including new 
brands of whiskey, canvas rubber footwear, deer and 

elk skins. 

Four roll-back actions, including cheap Swiss 
watches, aircraft grade hemlock logs. 

Sixty-eight actions increasing prices, including cop¬ 
per castings, wire garment hangers, Farmer’s Friend 
plows, laminated wood structural members. 


6th Stove rationing relaxed. 

17 th Three-week stamp-free sale of women’s novelty 
shoes priced below $3. 

30th Increased red point values for meat and cheese 
reflect expected 200,000,000-pound meat drop 
during February. 

30th Canned grapefruit, soybeans, and mushrooms 
removed from rationing. 


ACCOUNTING 

Forms A and B for current financial reporting 
revised—greatly condensed and simplified. Mailing 
list expanded to include smaller firms. 

INFORMATION 

5th Administrator Bowles reads Roosevelt’s mes¬ 
sage lauding OPA volunteer workers. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Jerome M. Ney succeeds Patterson H. French 
as Director of Miscellaneous Products Ration¬ 
ing Division. (Shoes) 

1st Patterson H. French made Assistant to Deputy 
Administrator for Rationing, in Charge of Pro¬ 
gram Planning. 

7th Byres H. Gitchell succeeds Reagan Connally as 
Director of Consumer Goods Price Division. 

8th Charles A. Marquardt succeeds Kenneth W. 
Rowe as Executive Officer in the Price 
Department. 

17th OPA employs Inspectors of the National Hard¬ 
wood Lumber Association in an attempt to 
eliminate upgrading of lumber and other vio¬ 
lations. (SSR 24, MPR 165) 


January 1944 


OTHER EVENTS 

22d United States troops land at Anzio in Italy. 

General Eisenhower to England to head SHAEF 
(Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces). 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 124.2 


down 

0.2 

from December 





February 1944 


PRICE 

1st Further temporary increase in hard coal prices 
to cover seven-day week during February. 
(Am. 17, MPR 112) 

4th Increased ceiling prices for packers of 1944 
pack of citrus juice offset by subsidies on grape¬ 
fruit but not on orange juice. OES approval. 
(MPR 509) 

12th Bed sheet prices increased for mills under WPB 
production program in accordance with OES 
directive. Retail absorption required. (Am. 
12, RPS 89) 

12th Regional offices authorized to set uniform retail 
prices for chain stores. (RSO 13) 

14th New ceilings reduce prices for rayon knit outer¬ 
wear clothing. (MPR 508) 

14th Wood pulp prices which had been pegged in 
1942 at July 1940 levels, increased. (Am. 9, 
MPR 114) 

18th Slight price increase for horse collars at WPB 
request. (Am. 20, SR 15, GMPR) 

21st Peanut oil prices increased, reflecting end of 
subsidy. (Am. 16, MPR 53) 

23 d Cotton and rayon converter regulation tight¬ 
ened. (Am. 17, MPR 137) 

29th Revision of the order for jobbers of electric 
lamps strikes at excessive middlemen. (Am. 
98, RSR 14) 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 123.8 

down 

0.4 

from January 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

One order extending price control—coconuts at 
wholesale. 

Twenty-six dollar-and-cent actions including tire re¬ 
pair materials, certain fresh vegetables at wholesale. 

Seven roll-back actions including pork tongue. 

Seventy-six actions increasing prices, including sea 
scallops, play pens, graded hardwood lumber in the 
Northeast, hot-house cucumbers, yellow cypress lum¬ 
ber, alfalfa hay products, and soybean oil from the 
1943 crop. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Boston, Mass., District Office combined with 
the Regional Office. 

1st Thomas C. Donnelly succeeds Donald B. 
MacPhail as Director of Field Division, Infor¬ 
mation Department. 

7th Rae E. Walters succeeds Raymond McKeough 
as Regional Administrator in Chicago. 

11th Joseph Forer succeeds Milton Klein as Direc¬ 
tor of Apparel and Industrial Materials Di¬ 
vision, Enforcement Department. 

22d Richard Y. Batterton succeeds Clem W. Col¬ 

lins as Regional Administrator in Denver. 

22d OPA Manual started. 


ENFORCEMENT 

23d Regional Administrators given right to recom¬ 
mend withholding subsidy payments to slaugh¬ 
terers who violate rationing regulations. 

28th Hecht Co. Case—Supreme Court reverses 
D. C. Court of Appeals, holding courts have 
discretion in issuance of injunctions even 
though violations are shown. 321 U. S. 321. 


RATIONING 

1st Spare stamp No. 40 good for five pounds of 
canning sugar. 

13 th Points paid for waste fat boost collections. 

18th Another extra five-point stamp for pork and 

to sausage. 

26th 

27th Red and blue tokens in use for the food pro¬ 
gram. Tokens good for one point each and 
designed for making change. At the same 
time, all food stamps given a uniform value of 
10 points. Tokens distributed through banks 
to retail stores. 

Gasoline regulations tightened for those claiming 

permanent change of residence. 

RENT 

22d New York area rent offices may decrease rents, 
on tenant applications, for rent concessions 
allowed by landlords in base period. 

29th Landlords of newly constructed housing may 
get higher rents after property has been 
rented—not retroactive. 


ACCOUNTING 

Accounting undertakes a Nation-wide cost survey of 
processed fruits and vegetables to be used as the basis 
for pricing the 1944 pack. Approximately 100 ac¬ 
countants spend time on this survey before its com¬ 
pletion in August. 


OTHER EVENTS 

3d Allies halted in Italy at Cassino—Benedictine 
monastery. 

17 th Eniwetok. 

25th Revenue Act of 1943 passed over presidential 
veto; among other provisions it imposes 20 per¬ 
cent excise tax on such things as jewelry, furs, 
luggage, electric light bulbs, other commodities. 


INFORMATION 

Motion-picture short “Prices Unlimited” produced by 
Universal for showing in theaters. Also available for 
club and community meetings. 




PRICE 

2d Import price regulations tightened. (Am. 2, 

MIPR) 

2d Chevrolet trucks up 25 percent. (Order 158, 
MPR 136) 

11th Southern pulpwood up. 

11th Black pepper increase denied in spite of corner 
on the world market. 

15th Rough rice under price control. (MPR 518) 

16th Southern pine prices up under four actions by 
OPA. 

23d Price increases for denims and chambrays to 
encourage increased production. 

27th Plastics prices brought under single regulation. 
(MPR 523) 

31st Special order covers toy pricing for new manu¬ 
facturers. (Order 1444, MPR 188) 

During the Month 

Six orders extending price control including ocean 
pouts, previously uncontrolled types of wire cable 

servicing. 

Fourteen orders setting dollar-and-cent prices includ¬ 
ing goat meat. 

Nine roll-back actions including enriched flour, dried 
whole eggs, Maine sardines, Cuban gin. 

Fifty-six actions increasing prices including railway 
track torpedoes, wet mops, rubber-coated fabrics, West 

Coast cooperage. 

ENFORCEMENT 

16th Capture of gangsters from Detroit s Purple 
Mob” trying to deliver counterfeit gasoline 
coupons in Boston. Hauled off a train in 
Worcester, Mass., two suspicious characters ap¬ 
peared to be in the clear. Induced to go to 
lunch with OPA agents, the men gave them¬ 
selves away by refusing to check their topcoats, 
one even sitting on his. False inner linings of 
the coats revealed 26,000 phony A cou¬ 
pons. A swap of identical topcoats at a prize¬ 
fight was the planned method of delivery. 


RATIONING 

1st Distinction between “meals” and “refresh¬ 
ments” in issuing allotments to institutional 
users. 

1st Number of types of institutional users increases 
from three to six: 

Boarding house In-plant feeding 

Prisons, etc. Hospitals 

Restaurants School lunches 

3d Unexpected increase in civilian supplies makes 
lard ration-free. 

5 th Points down on several popular canned vege¬ 
tables, up on many canned fruits. Pork, many 
beef cuts down sharply. 

15th Sugar stamps to be valid indefinitely. 

23d Food allowances for institutional users serving 
commercial fishermen aboard ship to be based 
upon four meals a day. 

23d Canning sugar allowance generous. 

27th Meat and processed food points to be valid in¬ 
definitely. This action taken because the 
public was converting stamps into tokens, plac¬ 
ing a tremendous drain on OPA’s stock of 
tokens. 

Test campaign on issuance of non-highway gasoline 

in Lancaster, Pa. 

ENFORCEMENT—Continued 

27th Supreme Court sustains validity of rent regula¬ 
tions and authorizes Federal Courts to enjoin 
eviction proceedings by landlords in State 
courts. Bowles v. Willingham, 321 U. S. 503. 

27th Supreme Court in sweeping decision by 6-3 
vote upholds constitutionality of price controls 
and procedures set forth in the Emergency 
Price Control Act. Defendants in criminal 
prosecutions may not challenge validity of OPA 
regulations in course of trials since the Emer¬ 
gency Court of Appeals has exclusive jurisdic¬ 
tion to review regulations. Yakus v. United 
States, 321 U. S. 414. 

Check of “every” grocery store in the country on 

posting ceiling prices, etc. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Eldon C. Shoup succeeds Kenneth Bachman 
as Regional Administrator in Boston. 

4th Robert R. R. Brooks made Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator. 

10th Henry S. Reuss resigns as Assistant General 
Counsel for Industrial Materials. 

11th Douglas J. Bennet made Special Assistant, as¬ 
signed to Campaigns Division, Information De¬ 
partment, succeeding Barton A. Cummings. 

11th James C. Derieux made Director of Field Op¬ 
erations, succeeding Frank E. Marsh. 

22d Resignation of Rolf Nugent, Special Adviser to 
the Administrator and Head of Credit Policy 
Office. 

29th “Manual of Price Panel Operation” sent to 
Boards in loose-leaf service. 

31st Walter A. O’Meara resigns as Information 
Deputy. 

Bowles seeks increased appropriation. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

10th Smith Committee hears retailers’ complaints 
against “highest price line” limitations in ap¬ 
parel regulations. 


March 1944 


OTHER EVENTS 

3d Third Annual Report of the Truman Com¬ 
mittee urges further action to prepare for re¬ 
sumption of civilian production. 

3d Death of Joseph B. Eastman, ODT Director. 


LEGISLATION 

15th Senate Banking and Currency Committee 
starts hearings on renewal of the Price Control 
and Stabilization Act. Hearings end April 28. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 


First quarter 1944 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)______ 

War Spending (annual rate)..... 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)... 

Public Debt (end of quarter).... 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter)... 

- $85.2 billion.... 

Up 2.1 percent. 

Up 2.3 percent. 

Up 2.8 percent. 

Up 9.9 percent. 

Off 2.3 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 123.8..... . 

Same as February. 



















April 1944 


PRICE 

1st Early dry onions up in accordance with OES 
directive to stimulate production. (Am. 12, 
RMPR271) 

1st Brass and bronze alloy ingots up to reflect use 
of virgin metal instead of old automobile radi¬ 
ators, etc. (Am. 4, MPR 202) 

5th Binder twine prices held at previous year’s 
level by subsidy on jute. (MPR 360) 

12th Low end textile price adjustment authorized 
under OPA, OES, WPB program. (SO 86) 

18th Dollar-and-cent prices on upholstered couches 
and studio beds, returning to production with 
prewar spring construction. (Order 1509, 
MPR 188) 

18th Synthetic tires and tubes sold to car and truck 
manufacturers for original equipment get ceil¬ 
ings 27 percent over natural rubber. (RMPR 
119) 

19th Field office adjustments authorized for manu¬ 
facturers of concrete products. (Am. 32, 
MPR 188) 

21 st Premium price to encourage poultry marketing 

in spring months. (Am. 28, RMPR 269) 

27 th Dollar-and-cent mark-ups for retailers of prin¬ 
cipal fresh vegetables. (Am. 15, MPR 422; 
Am. 16, MPR 423) 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 124.6 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Ten orders extending price control, including bananas 
and fresh strawberries. 

Twenty-seven dollar-and-cent orders, including bulk 
maple sirup, metal folding cots, bulk condensed milk. 

Nine roll-back actions including used typewriters at 
wholesale. 

Forty-five actions increasing prices including oleo¬ 
margarine, used automotive parts, Southern cord- 
wood, Northeastern pulpwood, West Coast pulp logs, 
mussel shells (for buttons), construction grades of 
Douglas Fir. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Thomas C. Donnelly succeeds Walter A. 
O’Meara as Deputy Administrator for In¬ 
formation. 

11th Cleon O. Swayzee succeeds Robert R. R. 
Brooks as Labor Relations Adviser to the Ad¬ 
ministrator. Brooks becomes Executive As¬ 
sistant to Bowles. 

16th Alexander Harris succeeds James C. Derieux 
as Regional Administrator in Adanta. 

24th Oliver Peterson succeeds J. Paul Leonard as 
Director of Community Services Division, In¬ 
formation Department. 

26th Norton S. Long succeeds Frank E. Manuel as 
Director of Programs Division, Rent Depart¬ 
ment. 


up 

0.8 

from March 


RATIONING 

5th Extra gasoline for victory gardeners. 

11th Extra gasoline for farm organization repre- 
sentadves. 

15 th Shortening and oils temporarily off rationing. 

17th Slight easing of tire eligibility rules jams local 
boards with A card holders—who get few tires. 

20th Tire inspection requirement in mileage ration¬ 
ing program for passenger cars abandoned. 

20th Extra meat and sugar for loggers to provide 
average of 5,500 calories per day. 

22d Typewriter rationing ends. 

28th Tightening of gas rationing procedures for 
truck and bus operators. 

30th Eight canned vegetables at 0 point value. But¬ 
ter down from 16 to 12 points, margarine from 
6 to 2. 

Lamb and mutton points down about 50 percent. 


ENFORCEMENT 

1st Seizure of coupon counterfeiters and press in 
Norristown, Pa. An alert highschool boy, 
working in gas station after school spotted an 
odd-looking coupon offered by a motorist, re¬ 
ported car license number to OPA and police. 

LITIGATION 

10th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains compari¬ 
sons of current and prewar net income before 
taxes in determining whether OPA regulations 
inflict hardship. Interwoven Stocking Co. v. 
Bowles, 141 F. (2d) 696. 


OTHER EVENTS 

26th The army seizes Montgomery Ward in Chi¬ 
cago for refusal to obey a War Labor Board 
ruling. 

28th Secretary of Navy Frank Knox dies. 


LEGISLATION 

12th House Banking and Currency Committee 
starts five weeks of hearings on renewal of 
Price Control and Stabilization Act. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

19th Petroleum subcommittee of House Interstate 
Commerce Committee begins series of hearings 
on price, supply, and black markets. 

24th Smith Committee report takes sharp issue with 
House Banking and Currency Committee ver¬ 
sion of OPA extension bill, and recommends 
sweeping changes. 




PRICE 

1st Dollar-and-cent retail prices for synthetic tires 
and tubes, up 8.9 percent from November 1941 
list prices for natural rubber tires. (MPR 

528) 

8th Maryland tobacco, formerly an export item, 
under price control for domestic use with ceil¬ 
ings below the going prices. (MPR 532) 

13th Individual adjustments authorized for low- 
price bakers. (Am. 2, SR 14B, GMPR) 

15th Log and bolt price regulations broken down by 
areas and types with provision for informal con¬ 
trols over many small primary producers; 
legal ceilings start at distribution yards. 

15th Chicago price of live hogs over 240 pounds re¬ 
duced to discourage heavy corn feeding. 

16th Dollar-and-cent prices on work clothes, with in¬ 
creases to stimulate production. (MPR 506) 

20th Dollar-and-cent prices for radio replacement 
tubes, using 1942 list prices. (Am. 134, 
RSR 14) 

25th All retail food stores must post selling prices as 
well as ceiling prices. (Am. 17, MPR 422; 
Am. 18, MPR 423) 

During the Month 

Five orders extending price control, including Cana¬ 
dian pulpwood and potatoes (1944 crop). 

Thirty-one dollar-and-cent actions, including sec¬ 
ond-hand cardboard boxes, tire and tube repair, West 
Coast orange and blended juice 1944 pack, fence posts. 

Six roll-back actions including imported bulk honey. 

Forty-four actions increasing prices, including Pon- 
derosa pine in Montana, beef cuts for ship suppliers, 
butchers’ blocks. 


RATIONING 

1st B and G gasoline book holders eligible for grade 
1 tires. 

10th Fuel oil plan for heating season 1944—45 an¬ 
nounced. No major changes. 

13th Home canning sugar program modified to let 
district offices order issuance in two install¬ 
ments. Much confusion caused by varying 
decisions in different districts. 

22d Revised fee schedule for ration banking. 

Children’s shoes at $1.60 or less made ration free 

for first 3 weeks of month. 

ENFORCEMENT 

20th Chief of counterfeiting gang on West Coast 
fined $20,000, sent to jail for 6 years. Sen¬ 
tencing the chief and six confederates, Federal 
Judge A. F. St. Sure, of San Francisco, said: 
“The acts of these men were akin to treason.” 

22d Supreme Court sustains OPA’s power to issue 
suspension orders for violation of ration regu¬ 
lations. Steuart & Bro. v. Bowles, 322 U. S. 
398. 

Over 1,300 peddlers of black market ration currency 

arrested since first of year. 


ADMINISTRATION 


1st George J. Nealans succeeds Durant Rose as 
Director of Administrative Services. 

2d Edward C. Welsh made Head of the Field Op¬ 
erations Office in the Price Department. 

15th Robert Finley succeeds Harry Jones as Director 
of Food Enforcement Division. 

22d Tyrus B. Timm succeeds H. H. Williamson as 
Agricultural Adviser to the Administrator. 

22d John S. Clement succeeds Clarence W. Slocum 
as Director of the Industrial Materials 
Division and the Industrial Manufacturing 
Division. 

26th Charles S. Phillips succeeds Bryan Houston as 
Deputy Administrator for Rationing. 

Administrator Bowles launches drive to double 

Local Board membership. 


May 1944 


OTHER EVENTS 

7th W. Y. Elliott succeeds A. D. Whiteside at WPB 
as Vice Chairman for Civilian Requirements. 

10th James V. Forrestal named Secretary of the 
Navy. 

13th Lend-Lease Act extended through June 1945. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 125.1 

up 

0.5 

from April 




June 1944 


PRICE 

1st GMPR rules for new-goods pricing tightened. 
(Am. 61, GMPR) 

1st Scheduled hard coal price reduction cut in 
half. (Am. 18, MPR 112) 

15th Individual adjustment provisions for stationery 
items, certain cements and adhesives, etc. 
(Am. 15, MPR 220) 

17th Low-cost dollar-and-cent clothing prices under 
WPB’s priority-assistance program. 

19th New fur regulation. (MPR 541) 

21st Food Price Regulation 1 combines all processed 
dry groceries in one regulation. 

30th Mill increases on denim. 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Nine actions extending price control, including fresh 
apricots, plums, cherries, and Italian prunes, agricul¬ 
tural services. 

Twenty-eight dollar-and-cent items, including hog 
skin and pig skin, cigar cuttings, watermelons, alfalfa. 

Seven actions rolling back prices, including shrimp, 
other fish. 

Forty-five actions increasing prices, including book 
and writing papers, other paper products, composition- 
rubber soling, commercial veneer, Western pine, cham- 
bray. 


RENT 

9th Liberalized provision for evicting a tenant after 
a house is sold; waiting period reduced, bor¬ 
rowing of money for down payment permitted. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 


Second quarter 1944 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)- 

War Spending (annual rate)- 

(Annual ratp) _ 


$160.2 billion._ 

$86.2 billion.— 
$96.4 billion.... 

Up 0.9 percent. 

Up 1.2 percent. 

No change. 

Public Debt (end of quarter)- 

Civilian Emolovment (end of quarter)-- 


$202.6 billion.— 
53.0 million... 

Up 8.3 percent. 

Up 3.3 percent. 


Up 0.3 from May. 

Up 13.4 from Jan. ’42. 
Up 4.7 from Jan. ‘43. 

Up 1.2 from Jan. *44. 

consumer rnc« ina«x i - - 


RATIONING 

16th Previous month’s ruling on canning sugar 
rescinded. 

20th Regional verification centers established for ex¬ 
amining ration currency after it has cleared 
through banks. 

30th Transit companies and others finding tokens in 
slot machines are required to deliver them to 
local boards. 

All B and G gasoline coupons serially numbered. 


ADMINISTRATION 

11th Richard C. Harrison succeeds Charles F. Phil¬ 
lips as Director of the Automotive Supply Ra¬ 
tioning Division. 

26th G. Brainerd Currie succeeds Leigh Athem as 
Director of Rent and Services Enforcement 
Division. 

26th Esther Cole Franklin made Consumer Rela¬ 
tions Adviser to the Administrator. 


OTHER EVENTS 

4th Rome occupied by Allies. 

6th D-day. Allies land in Normandy. 

12th V-l bombs land on Britain. 

22d GI Bill of Rights approved by the President 

The Democratic Ticket for President and Vice Presi¬ 
dent—Roosevelt and Truman. 

Bretton Woods Conference ends. 


LEGISLATION 

21st House and Senate pass bill extending Price 
Control one year. Signed by President on 
June 30. Amendments to the Act include pro¬ 
hibition of the highest-price-line limitation at 
retail; requirement that each major cotton 
textile item priced must reflect parity for cot¬ 
ton (Bankhead Amendment); provision for 
wider individual rent adjustments; notice of 
farm crop ceilings at least 15 days before plant¬ 
ing time; minor changes in enforcement and 
protest procedures; “established accounting 
methods” proviso. 


ACCOUNTING 

30th Amendments to Price Control Act, providing 
special treatment for cotton (Bankhead) and 
individual rent adjustments, bring greatly in¬ 
creased work load to Accounting Division. 




















PRICE 

7th Dollar-and-cent prices at all levels on women’s 
house dresses and slips, men’s shirts and shorts 
made to WPB specifications. (MPR 547) 

10th Price control extended to used cars with dollar- 
and-cent prices at January 1944 levels. (MPR 

540) 

20th Prospective increases announced for 1944 crop 
of flue-cured tobacco. 

24th 1944 pack of vegetables to be priced in accord¬ 
ance with Department of Agriculture grade 

specifications. 

31st Restaurant prices under a Nation-wide regula¬ 
tion, replacing experimental field office orders. 
Base period April 4-10, 1943. (Rest. MPR 2) 

During the Month 

Eleven orders extending price control including fresh 
peaches for table use, melons at all levels. 

Twenty-four dollar-and-cent actions including 
sweetpotatoes. 

Fifty-five actions increasing prices, including lake 
cargo coal, wax paper, surgical and dental instruments, 
waste paper, unpainted furniture, several fresh vege¬ 
tables, dry edible beans. 


RATIONING 

1st Automobile tubes removed from rationing. 

2d Many meat point values at record highs. 

10th Odd lots and obsolete shoes ration free for 2 

to weeks if sold 25 percent below regular price. 
29th 

17 th Isolated sheep herders get a little more sugar. 

22d Canned soup manufacturers allowed rationed 
foods to the limit of available containers, re¬ 
gardless of base period use. 

25th Gallon-a-day gasoline allowance for service 
men on furlough. Maximum 30 gallons. 

25th Procedural changes to insure charging of gaso¬ 
line and fuel oil used by the armed services to 
the military allocation. 

25th Tightening of truck tire inspection. 

30th Tightening of regulations for truck and farm 
tires. Emergency truck tire boards to be 
established. 


ENFORCEMENT 

10th Special Agents (Currency Protection Branch) 
established, working first on ration-currency 
counterfeiting and theft, later on price rackets. 


RENT 


17th Liberalized hardship adjustment for landlords 
in accordance with requirements of the new 
Act. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st OPA’s appropriation for fiscal year 1945— 
$179,000,000. 

1st Robert R. Ehrlich made Director of Special 
Investigations Division, Enforcement Depart¬ 
ment. 

3d Protest may be filed at any time after a regula¬ 
tion is issued, in accordance with provisions of 
the new Act. (Am. 8, RPR 1; Am. 7, 
RPR 3) 

10th Mrs. Ethel B. Gilbert made Director of Office 
of Industry Advisory Committees. 

15th Charles R. Baird succeeds Leo F. Gentner as 
Regional Administrator in San Francisco. 

31st Ivan D. Burdick succeeds Walter S. Straub as 
Director of Food Rationing Division. 


LITIGATION 

3d Emergency Court of Appeals holds price con¬ 
trols not applicable to the service of automatic 
fire and theft protective systems. Automatic 
Fire Alarm Co. v. Bowles, 143 F. (2d) 602. 


July 1944 

OTHER EVENTS 

25th Allies out of Normandy—road to Paris open. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

14th Senate Small Business Committee hears testi¬ 
mony on need for rent control of commercial 
properties. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 126.1 

up 

0.7 

from June 




August 1944 


PRICE 

1st Premium payments authorized for small margi¬ 
nal crude oil producers, subsidized by DSC. 
(Am. 2, RMPR 436) 

1st Roll-back on oats and barley. (Supp. 1, 2, and 
3, FPR 2) 

4th Canned meat prices rolled back. (RMPR 
156) 

14th Bed linen prices up in accordance with provi¬ 
sions of the new Act. (Am. 13, MPR 89) 

15th Dollar-and-cent prices for work clothing, in¬ 
cluding increases required by new Act. Incen¬ 
tive increases approved by OES. (RMPR 
208) 

16th Restaurants and others serving food required to 
post ceiling prices. 

22d New-brand margarine pricing tightened. 
(Am. 28, MPR 53; Am. 28, SR 15, GMPR) 

24th Dollar-and-cent prices at 1942 levels for elec¬ 
tric irons produced under WPB program. 
(Am. 165, RSR 14) 

29th Coverage of used consumer durable goods 
regulation extended to broader list of com¬ 
modities. 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Five actions extending price control, including fresh 
peas and fresh Texas beets. 

Twenty-two dollar-and-cent actions, including low- 
priced maternity dresses. 

Four roll-back actions, including 1944 crop of fresh 
apples. 

Forty-two actions increasing prices, including East¬ 
ern potatoes, cement, bricks, work gloves, combed and 
carded cotton yam. 


RENT 

1st Ten more rent areas under control, including 
Myrtle Beach, N. C., Pottawatomie County, 
Okla., Goldfield and Tonopah, Nev. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 126.4 


up 

0.3 

from July 


RATIONING 

1st Banks stop verifying envelope deposits of ra¬ 
tion currency with establishment of OPA re¬ 
gional verification centers. 

5th Stoves made available for summer cottages un¬ 
der rationing. 

15th Laundry stoves and gas ranges with non- 
metallic side panels removed from rationing. 

16th Gasoline ration bank accounts for OPA Re¬ 
gional and District Offices, Boards, and mail¬ 
ing centers. 

18th New gasoline A book. 

22d Naval officer in charge of seized and still strike¬ 
bound West Coast war plants authorized to 
revoke B and C gas rations of striking workers, 
under OES directive. 

ENFORCEMENT 

1st Effectiveness of treble damage suits increased 
as new act gives OPA authority to bring suits 
on sales to consumers, after 30-day wait for 
them to sue. Previously such suits could be 
brought only by the consumers themselves. 

1st Price panels in Local Boards given authority to 
negotiate settlement of consumer claims for 
overcharges. 

28th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals upholds ceil¬ 
ing differentials based on classes of customers. 
Bowles v. Nu Way Laundry, 144 F. (2d) 741, 
323 U. S. 791. 


OTHER EVENTS 

24th Paris liberated. 

Dumbarton Oaks Conference begins. 

Allied forces move north in Italy—into Florence. 

At WPB, Donald M. Nelson and Charles E. Wilson 
resign after basic differences. Julius A. Krug in as 
WPB head. 


LITIGATION 

24th Emergency Court of Appeals approves OPA 
use of “industry earnings” standard as criterion 
of “generally fair and equitable” ceilings—no 
increase required when current over-all net 
earnings of bleached shellac industry, before 
taxes, exceed those of prewar base period. 
Gillespie-Rogers-Pyatt Co. v. Bowles, 144 F. 
(2d) 361. 






PRICE 


1st General revision of work clothing prices, estab¬ 
lishing dollar-and-cent prices. 

1st Pricing methods for civilian resales of Govern¬ 
ment surplus goods. (SO 94) 

3d Uniform Nation-wide retail ceiling established 
for domestic granulated sugar (Am 12 
RPS 60) ' * 

3d Uniform raw sugar price fixed simultaneously 
(Am. 7, RPS 16) 

5th Upward revision of sheeting and fine cotton 
goods under Bankhead Amendment. 

18th Highest-price-line limitation removed on 
women’s and children’s outerwear at whole¬ 
sale and retail, remains for manufacturers. 
Pricing chart method replaces base period 
freeze. (RMPR 330) 

26th Farm services by contractors in the Imperial 
Valley restored to price control at WFA re¬ 
quest, to protect wage ceilings placed on agri¬ 
cultural labor there. (SSR 37, RMPR 165) 

30th Subsidies on canned snap beans to maintain 
last year’s prices. (Am. 6, Supp. 7, FPR 1) 

During the Month 

Three actions extending price control including West¬ 
ern pulpwood. 

Twenty-four dollar-and-cent actions including staple 
work clothing, imported cigars, Australian and New 
Zealand rabbitskins, ester gum, imported peanut oil. 

Four roll-back actions, including gasoline, kerosene, 
fuel oil, Swiss cheese. 

Thirty-four actions increasing prices including scrap 
chewing tobacco, cotton yarn, used trucks, Northeast¬ 
ern logs. 

Three actions decontrolling DDT, Concord grapes, 
ndxed gift packages. 


rationing 

3d All but choice cuts of meat are point free. 

3th Gold and silver leather evening shoes rationed 
unless made before September 5, 1944. 

9th Oil stove rationing made Nation-wide. 

11th Extra gasoline for political campaign man¬ 
agers. 

15th Tire inspection record replaced by mileage 
rationing record. 

17 th Canned vegetables, except tomatoes, and other 
processed foods removed from rationing—all 
processed food point values in multiples of ten. 

23d Bicycle rationing ends. 

25 th Nonleather shoes with rubber soles removed 
from rationing. 

30th Blue tokens taken out of circulation because 
most processed foods have been removed from 
rationing and tokens are no longer needed to 
make change. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Roderick H. Riley made Director of Research. 

10th John T. O’Brien succeeds Thomas C. Don¬ 
nelly as Director of Field Division, Informa¬ 
tion Department. 

13th Max McCullough succeeds Charles S. Phillips 
as Deputy Administrator for Rationing. 


ENFORCEMENT 

Arrest of counterfeiters, seizure of press in New York. 
Equipment ready to print about 5,000,000 phony 
gasoline stamps worth about $3,500,000. 


ACCOUNTING 

Over a hundred accountants required for the textile 
accounting work which had less than a dozen ac¬ 
countants before the enactment of the Bankhead 
Amendment. 


September 1944 

OTHER EVENTS 

11th Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Quebec. 

17th New York Times carries a story about plans 
for VE-day and the problems of preventing 
widespread unemployment. 


LITIGATION 

27th Emergency Court of Appeals holds OPA may 
reduce ceilings in changing from freeze to dol¬ 
lar-and-cent regulation, even though contracts 
for delivery were made at previously estab¬ 
lished higher ceilings. Foster & Co. v. Bowles, 
144 F. (2d) 870. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 


Third quarter 1944 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate).. 

War Spending (annual rate)_ 

Consumer Spending (annual rate) 

Public Debt (end of quarter)_ 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter) 


Up 0.1 percent. 

Off 6 percent. 

Up 3.5 percent. 

Up 4.2 percent. 

Up 1.9 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 126.5 

Up 0.1 from August. 





















October 1944 


PRICE 

7th Piano manufacturers resuming limited civilian 
production allowed 13 percent increase over 
GMPR. (Order 2525, MPR 188) 

9th Pepper prices raised in an attempt to open up 
cornered supplies—foreign sources closed since 
1941. 

11th Brick and tile producer prices up in Regions 
IV, V, VI, VII to get low-end production, fol¬ 
lowing similar action in Region III. (Am. 54, 
55, 56, 57, Order A-l, MPR 188) 

14th Proposed roll-back on synthetic tire prices, de¬ 
ferred at the request of War Department, Rub¬ 
ber Director and rubber industry. 

18th Price control for edible tree nuts extended to 
growers and country shippers. (RMPR 490) 

21st Price increase for wooden textile bobbins and 
spools. (Am. 127, MPR 136) 

21st Farm prices for rough rice up. (Am. 3, MPR 
518) 

28th “Hurricane” increases on snap beans and cran¬ 
berries to compensate for crops reduced severely 
by storm damage. (Am. 65, 67, MPR 426) 

30th Minimum octane rating of 75 fixed for gasoline 
sold at premium prices. (Am. 6, RMPR 137) 

30th Differential ceilings against heavy live hogs 
shifted to start at 270 pounds instead of 240 
pounds to encourage heavier feeding, reflecting 
good feed crops and continued high demand 
for pork and lard. (Am. 10, MPR 469) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Ten actions extending price control, including cran¬ 
berries. 

Twenty-one dollar-and-cent actions, including am¬ 
munition for civilians. 

Six roll-back actions including canned sausage prod¬ 
ucts sold uncanned. 

Fifty-four actions increasing prices including hickory 
and ash logs for handles, wattle bark, popcorn prod¬ 
ucts, early strawberries, filberts, and walnuts. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Warren Hall succeeds Cleon O. Swayzee as 
Labor Relations Adviser to the Administrator. 

1st William Orth succeeds Max McCullough as 
Regional Administrator in Dallas. 


ENFORCEMENT 

15 th Recovery of a roll of government safety paper 
worth $3,000,000 in gasoline and sugar cou¬ 
pons. Roll stolen from Fitchburg, Mass., ware¬ 
house, secreted in truck removing trash. Paper 
when recovered was under a woodpile at home 
of one of the gang. Eight men arraigned. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 126.5 
same 

as September 


RATIONING 

1st Butter points up from 16 to 20. 

16th Coal and wood stoves off rationing. 

16th Issuance of temporary gasoline rations to truck 
owners transferred from ODT to OPA Local 
Boards. 


RENT 

1st Ten new rent areas under control. 

13th Liberalized adjustment provisions for landlords 
on showing of hardship or improvement in 
accommodations, etc. 


INFORMATION 

Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation Campaign launched. 
A three-month publicity drive urging observance of 
ceiling prices, payment of ration points. 


OTHER EVENTS 

20th Americans land on Leyte in the Philippines. 
21st Dumbarton Oaks Conference ends. 

21st Wendell Willkie dies at 52. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

25th Senate Small Business Committee begins series 
of hearings on housing shortages and price con¬ 
trol for new houses—leading to later congres¬ 
sional consideration and passage of veterans’ 
housing bill. 




PRICE 

j st preticketed dollar-and-cent prices for fountain 
pens and mechanical pencils. (MPR 564) 

gth “Hurricane” increases for Florida oranges, 
grapefruit, and tangerines. (Am. 69, 70, 
MPR 426) 

Dollar-and-cent prices for imports of Panama 
hat bodies produced in Equador. (Order 56, 

MIPR) 

9th Iron and steel scrap ceiling restrictions eased. 
(Am. 1, MPR 4) 

9th Individual adjustments authorized for knitted 
underwear manufacturers producing under 
WPB directive in accordance with “Vinson” 
formula. (SO 99) 

13 th 1944 prices of potatoes extended to 1945 crop. 
(Am. 27, RMPR 271) 

13th Price increases for domestic cigars to stimulate 
low-priced cigars which had virtually disap¬ 
peared from the market. Action makes first 
use of maximum average price technique. 
New-brand rules tightened. (Am. 10, MPR 
260 ) 

During the Month 

Four actions extending price control, including syn¬ 
thetic rubber heels and soles. 

Twelve dollar-and-cent actions, including raw furs 

and peltries. 

Five roll-backs, including tires and tubes as original 

equipment. 

Thirty-eight actions increasing prices, including plug 
chewing tobacco, storage and handling of CCC cot¬ 
ton, Western pine lumber, wood rosin, hardwood 

flooring. 

Exempted from control miscellaneous items, includ¬ 
ing canoes, custom-made picture frames, cheap toys 
and games, also repair and maintenance of antiques. 


RATIONING 

1st Monthly tire quota increased to 1,850,000. 

4th On the assumption that rationing is nearing 
its end, the Local Board loose-leaf service is 
issued weekly instead of twice weekly. 

20th Naphtha added to gasoline program in Mid¬ 
west States. 

Local Boards no longer required to post and to re¬ 
lease to the press names of those who get tires. In¬ 
quiries must be answered. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Frances H. Williams succeeds T. Arnold Hill 
as Special Assistant on Race Relations. 

4th Alfred B. Stanford succeeds Thomas C. Don¬ 
nelly as Deputy Administrator for Information. 

6th William E. Remy succeeds Shad Polier as Di¬ 
rector of Fuel and Consumer Goods Enforce¬ 
ment Division. 

16th Jerome M. Ney leaves the Rationing Depart¬ 
ment to become Director of the Consumer 
Goods Price Division, succeeding Byres H. 
Gitchell. 

16th Geoffrey Baker succeeds Jean F. Carroll as Di¬ 
rector of Food Price Division. 

16th William A. Molster succeeds Jerome M. Ney 
as Director of Miscellaneous Products Ration¬ 
ing Division (Shoes). 


RENT 


1st Collection of security deposits limited under 
rent control. 


LITIGATION 

1st Walter C. Lindley appointed Judge of the 
Emergency Court of Appeals, increasing the 
number of judges from three to four. 

22d Emergency Court of Appeals approves ceilings 
for poultry graded according to U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture standards, on OPA finding 
that no effective alternative exists. Avon West¬ 
ern Corp. v. Bowles, 145 F. (2d) 473. 

29th Emergency Court of Appeals approves OPA 
classification of retail food ceilings according to 
store volume and type of ownership. Safeway 
Stores, Inc. v. Bowles, 145 F. (2d) 836, 846. 


INFORMATION 

Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation campaign continues. 


November 1944 

OTHER EVENTS 

7th Roosevelt and Truman elected. 

27th Cordell Hull out, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., in 
as Secretary of State. 

30th Central Administrative Services (CAS) dis¬ 
continued. 

Cigarette shortage. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

30th Senate Banking and Currency Committee be¬ 
gins hearings on bill to control commercial 
rents; later concludes the problem is localized 
and recommends State action where needed. 
Most testimony relates to New York, where 
State commercial rent control law was later 
passed. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 126.6 

up 

0.1 

from October 




December 1944 


PRICE 

1st Grade labeling of dressed meats must appear 
on all cuts by OES order. 

1st Effective date of MPR 438, the order on 
heavy outerwear postponed for the seventh 
time to January 15, 1945. (Am. 7, MPR 
438) 

1st Dollar-and-cent ceilings for surplus flashlight 
batteries. (Order 11, SO 94) 

2d Flue-cured tobacco prices for 1945 same as 
1944. (Adm. Notice 8) 

3d Prices of cotton and rayon finished piece goods 
revised to discourage expensive finishing oper¬ 
ations. Action also aimed to eliminate new 
“dummy” middlemen who perform no legiti¬ 
mate function. (Am. 26, MPR 127) 

4th Bankhead Amendment increase on terry cloth. 
(Am. 25, MPR 188) 

4th Manufacturer applications for new consumer 
durable-goods prices may be referred to field 
offices for final action. (Am. 44, MPR 188) 

6th Cotton-duck ceilings increased to meet urgent 
Army needs. (Am. 26, MPR 188) 


PRICE—Continued 

13th Differential ceilings against heavy-weight hogs 
removed. (Am. 11, MPR 469) 

13th Wheat ceilings raised to reflect parity to pro¬ 
ducers. (Am. 4, RMPR 487) 

13th Swiss watch prices tightened in new regula¬ 
tion. (RMPR 499) 

14th Ceilings for watermelons announced for 
1945—below 1944 level. (Adm. Notice 9) 

15 th Temporary increases on synthetic tires, due to 
expire December 15, extended to April 15, 
1945, at WPB request. (Am. 3, RMPR 143) 

18th Dollar-and-cent prices at all levels on bicycles 
released for production by WPB. 

18th Beer prices at all levels revised in new regula¬ 
tion, with tightening of provisions for new- 
brand pricing. (RMPR 259) 

During fhe Month 

Three actions extending price control, including rum 
from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. 

Fifteen dollar-and-cent actions, including air-raid- 
warden helmets, olive oil. 

Seven roll-backs, including bananas. 

Thirty-eight actions increasing prices, including 
bilge-sawn Southern pine, nail-keg staves, filberts, 
other items in limited areas. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 


Fourth quarter 1944 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)--- $163.0 billion.... 

War Spending (annual rate)- $82.5 billion.... 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)----- $101.3 billion.... 

Public Debt (end of quarter)----- $232.1 billion.... 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter)-- 521 million— 

Up 1.6 percent. 

Up 1.9 percent. 

Up 1.5 percent. 

Up 9.9 percent. 

Off 3.5 percent. 


Up 0.4 from Nov. 

Up 15.0 from Jan. *42. 
Up 6.3 from Jan. '43. 

Up 2.8 from Jan. ’44. 

Consumer rncc inu^x ix/iv - 


RATIONING 

1st Ration-bank accounts provided for local 
boards, mailing centers, district, regional, and 
national offices for all ration programs. 

1st Another increase in monthly tire quota— 

2 , 000 , 000 . 

5th Grade 3 tires left from idle-tire purchase pro¬ 
gram made ration free. 

6th All gasoline coupons now serially numbered. 

6th Appeals for gasoline rations denied by plant 
transportation committees may be taken to 
Local Boards and higher. 

16th Industrial user sugar allotments cut because 
of reduction in WFA allocation. 

26th Most outstanding food stamps canceled be¬ 
cause of new shortages and huge backlog of 
stamps in the hands of consumers. 

28th Loose-leaf manual for banks established. 

31st Almost all meats again rationed, also im¬ 
portant canned vegetables. Point value of 
butter and canned milk up. 

Uniform Nation-wide validity and expiration dates 

for A gasoline coupons. 


ADMINISTRATION 

31st Erie, Pa., District Office closed. 


INFORMATION 

24th News leak of food-stamp cancellation forces 
action sooner than planned. Advance press 
release issued Christmas Eve for release 
Christmas morning. 

Final month of Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation 
campaign. 


OTHER EVENTS 

15th Battle of the Bulge. 

26th Violent press and public criticism of food- 
to stamp cancellation. 

31st 


RENT 

26th Relaxed eviction rules for a veteran buying a 
house permit him to borrow down-payment 
money. 

30th Decontrol in Hot Springs County, Ark. 


LITIGATION 

1st Emergency Court of Appeals approves OPA 
move against “dummy” wholesaler of cigar 
tobacco—marketing cooperative gets same 
ceiling as parent grower cooperative. Great 
Northern Cooperative Assn. v. Bowles, 146 F. 
(2d) 269. 

6th Emergency Court of Appeals upholds OPA 
order reducing first rental charge for new 
apartments, retroactively to date of first rent, 
on showing of prevailing rent for comparable 
accommodations and failure of landlord to re¬ 
port within required 30 days. Andy J. Wo¬ 
mack v. Bowles, 146 F. (2d) 497. 

15th Michigan Supreme Court upholds Detroit 
ordinance making violation of OPA regula¬ 
tions a local offense. People v. Sell, 310 
Mich. 305. 

22d Emergency Court of Appeals approves OPA 
pricing of new brand of beer the same as the 
brewer’s popular-priced brand, abandoned 
when the new brand was brought out. Am¬ 
brosia Brewing Co. v. Bowles, 147 F. (2d) 
550. 

30th New York Court of Appeals upholds State 
law making violation of OPA regulations a 
State offense. People v. Mailman, 293 N. Y. 
887. 
























PRICE 


PRICE—Continued 


1 st “Hurricane” increases on beans, cucumbers, 
citrus fruits reduced or removed. (Am. 76, 
77, MPR426) 

1st Snap bean and other Florida vegetable prices 
increased somewhat because of December cold 
wave. (Am. 78, MPR 426) 

1st Scheduled reduction in used car prices deferred. 

1st Hosiery regulation tightened. 

1st Prices of new laundry and dry cleaning services 
tightened. (SSR 44, RMPR 165) 

1st First application of “hardship provision” of 
stripper oil well premium plan. (Am. 10, 
RMPR 436) 

1st Whiskey prices for production during January 
1945 alcohol “holiday” show no increase over 
previous prices. (Am. 21, MPR 445) 

5th Book paper ceilings revised to comply with 
Emergency Court ruling. (Am. 5, MPR 451) 

11th First general steel increases of $2 to $5 per ton 
on five basic products, granted under “product 
standard” criterion. (Am. 11, RPS 6) 

12th Individual adjustments authorized for electric 
irons selling for less than $5 to stimulate pro¬ 
duction. (Am. 22, Order A-2, MPR 188) 

13th New goods pricing of plastics and synthetics 
tightened. (Am. 7, MPR 406) 

15th Premium on nonstandard sizes of Southern pine 
lumber eliminated. (Am. 6, 2d RMPR 19) 

15th Dry cleaners required to post prices. (Order 
42, RMPR 165) 

17th Absorption of recent cotton textile manufac¬ 
turer increases required of wholesalers and re¬ 
tailers in 30—70 percent proportion. 

19th First general increase on cotton blankets since 
1942. (Am. 29 , MPR 188) 

22d New pricing method for women’s underwear, 
etc., designed to fix quality and price near 1942 
levels. (MPR 570) 


29th Price ceilings set on live cattle for the first 
rime—the last basic food commodity to be con¬ 
trolled. Order includes provision limiting 
proportion of good and choice cattle to be 
slaughtered. (MPR 574) 

29th Leather ceilings revised at all levels, tightening 
control. (MPR 61) 

29th Uniform ceilings on aluminum scrap. (Am. 
8, MPR 2) 

During the Month 

Four actions extending price control, including Cana¬ 
dian pulpwood, imported cotton seed oil. 

Eighteen dollar-and-cent actions, including alligator 
and crocodile skins, blue and gorgonzola cheese, fresh 
fluke fillets, malleable iron castings under 200 lb., 
rotary-cut commercial veneer. 

Eight roll-backs, including imported canned hams. 

Thirty-four actions increasing prices, including green 
coffee, cooked corned beef briskets, 1944 crop soy¬ 
beans for oil, soda wood pulp, fresh salmon, cotton 
thread. 


RENT 

8th Tie-in agreements (sale of furniture, etc.) 
prohibited. 

Total number of rent areas under control: 414, 
total population 91,000,000. 


RATIONING 


19th Lard, shortening, salad and cooking oils, citrus 
juices rationed again. 

Allotment of rationed food for restaurants reduced 

20 percent to bring it in line with consumer ration. 

Extremely heavy withdrawal of ration tokens by 

consumers, caused by stamp cancellation in December. 

ADMINISTRATION 

2d The Accounting Department created to replace 
the Division of Accounting Services: Paul M. 
Green, Deputy Administrator, Rexford C. 
Parmelee, Director of Financial Reporting 
Division; Lindsley H. Noble, Director of Serv¬ 
ice Accounting and Audits Division; Percy L. 
Hanson, Director of Industrial Accounting Di¬ 
vision; Walker E. Campbell, Director of Con¬ 
sumer Products Division; L. Donald McKay, 
Director of Field Accounting Division. 

4th Office of Board Management replaces Office of 
Field Operations. 

9th Department of Administrative Management 
abolished. Replaced by “management offi¬ 
ces” responsible to Deputy Administrator 
(Budget and Planning, Personnel, Administra¬ 
tive Services). 

16th F. Reed Dickerson appointed Pricing Stand¬ 
ards Office Director. 

16th Herbert Little made Director of reorganized 
Editorial Division, Information Department, 
succeeding William A. Wells, previously Head 
of Media, and Elliott Marple, previously Head 
of News Branch. 

16th H. Burke Fry becomes Director of Budget Op¬ 
erations for the second time, succeeding Bern¬ 
ard J. Oliver. 

24th James E. Kelley succeeds Ivan D. Burdick as 
Director of Food Rationing Division. 

27th Eugene Swigart becomes Head of Legal Divi¬ 
sion, Rent Department. 


January 1945 

OTHER EVENTS 

3d Race tracks closed by OWM Director, James 
F. Byrnes. 

9th Americans land on Luzon. 

21st Jesse Jones out of RFC. 

Allies win Battle of the Bulge. 

FDR inaugurated for fourth term. 

Cigarette shortage continues. 


ENFORCEMENT 

Pacific Mills settled Government treble-damage claim 
for overcharges on sales of woolen cloth for 
$2,065,842.02. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 127.1 

up 

0.1 

from December 




February 1945 


PRICE 

3d Bankhead Amendment increase on flannel. 
(Am. 30, MPR 118) 

5th Dry onions and sweetpotatoes 1944 ceiling ex- 

to tended for 1945 crop. (Am. 28, MPR 271; 

8th Am. 82, MPR 426) 

7th Building materials manufacturers get uniform 

individual adjustment provision covering 35 
commodity groups. (Order B-l, MPR 188) 

12th Shoe repair area orders authorize setting 
dollar-and-cent ceilings in regions. (SSR 47, 
RMPR165) 

14th Pig iron up $1 per ton, first general increase 
since 1941. (Am. 10, RPS 10) 

15th Decrease in butterfat content of ice cream with¬ 
out price change, in general revision of ice¬ 
cream ceilings. (MPR 577) 

During the Month 

Four actions extending price control, including raw¬ 
shearling imports. 

Fifteen dollar-and-cent actions, including dry bat¬ 
teries, glycerine anti-freeze, brown rubber heels and 
soles. 

Four roll-backs, including synthetic rubber bands. 

Thirty actions increasing prices, including Southern 
hardwood, Florida strawberries, ready-mixed concrete 
in Midwest, one-ton coal deliveries. 

Decontrol of eighteen classes of unimportant novel¬ 
ties, including miniature furniture, such things as dog 
and cat beds. 


RATIONING 

1st February tire quota reduced to 1,600,000. 

14th Announcement of program for validation and 
expiration of food stamps, explaining overlap¬ 
ping periods. 

19th Another odd-lot shoe sale. 

to 

March 3 

23d Canning-sugar program announced, tighter 
than in 1944. 


INFORMATION 

Motion picture, “Story With Two Endings,” produced 
by 20th Century-Fox for OPA. Theater bookings. 
Also club and community use. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 126.9 


down 

0.2 

from January 


ADMINISTRATION 

9th John G. Neukom becomes Director of the com¬ 
bined Automotive Supply and Fuel Rationing 
Division, succeeding Richard C. Harrison in 
Automotive Supply. 


LEGISLATION 

27th Senate Banking and Currency Committee starts 
hearing on renewal of Price Control Act. 


OTHER EVENTS 

4th Yalta Conference. 

13th Russians into Budapest, Frankfort-on-Oder. 

19 th Battle for I wo Jima begins. 

19th Midnight curfew for night clubs, theaters, and 
saloons. 

19th WPB’s textile Order M-388 directs more fabric 
to lower-priced clothing. 

23d Allies cross Roer River. 

23d Cigarette shortage continues. 

Complaints about no meat in restaurants. 


LITIGATION 

12th Emergency Court of Appeals upholds highest- 
price-line limitation, in case begun before Sta¬ 
bilization Act of 1944 outlawed such a regula¬ 
tion at retail, but held the limitation discrimi¬ 
natory when based on deliveries only, excluding 
offers, during the March 1942 period. Mont¬ 
gomery Ward v. Bowles, 147 F. (2d) 858. 

26th Thomas F. McAllister appointed Judge of the 
Emergency Court of Appeals, increasing the 
number of judges from four to five. 




PRICE 

1st Fall and winter outerwear prices revised in new 
regulation reducing manufacturers’ margins. 
(MPR 572) The new order replaces MPR 
438 written in July 1943 but postponed many 
times. 

1st Iron and steel warehousers and jobbers may 
pass on new mill increase of January. 

3d Price of minced razor clams in 5 oz. containers 
reduced to stimulate production of more pop¬ 
ular smaller size. (Am. 3, MPR 448) 

5th Six hundred thousand food retailers required 
to redetermine store classification. 

10th Posting of ceilings for 14 common drinks re¬ 
quired in saloons, bars, and taverns. (Order 
3, Rest. MPR 2) 

12th Price increases for most breakfast cereals. 

19th Preticketed pricing for cotton clothing pro¬ 
duced with WPB assistance. (MPR 578) 

19th Upholstered furniture prices tightened when re¬ 
tailer furnishes cover fabric, in move against 
widespread practice growing out of fabric 
shortage. (Order 3261, MPR 188) 

20th Retail margins on clothing and home furnish¬ 
ings not under dollar-and-cent prices frozen as 
of March 19 in new “pricing chart” regulation, 
replacing five commodity orders and GMPR. 
Order affects about 300,000 stores. (MPR 
580) 

28th Formula prices for prefabricated buildings, 
largely of lumber, nonresidential. (MPR 

583) 

29th Three dollars a ton increase on all newsprint— 
third increase since controls were imposed. 
(Am. 10, RMPR 130) 

31st Industrial services and machinery maintenance 
under separate regulations. (MPR 581) 

31st Carbon black increases of previous November 
extended to all grades used in rubber produc¬ 
tion, to increase tire output. (Am. 3, SR 14F) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Three actions extending price control including scrap 
rubber, farm auction sale of government surplus. 

Thirteen dollar-and-cent actions including tire re¬ 
liners, evaporated goat milk, Connecticut shade-grown 
tobacco. 

Eleven roll-back actions, including fresh plums, 
peaches, cherries, imported olive oil. 

Twenty-eight actions increasing prices, including 
paper towels, hickory blanks for picker sticks, ester gum. 


LITIGATION 

15 th Emergency Court of Appeals hands down first 
decision under 1944 act, authorizing stay of en¬ 
forcement proceedings while it passes on 
validity of price regulations; used household 
appliance regulations sustained. Fournace v. 
Bowles, 148 F. (2d) 97, cert. den. 325 U. S. 
884. 

23d Federal Circuit Court of Appeals holds OPA 
ceilings apply to sales of liquor confiscated by 
State officers. Bowles v. Texas Liquor Con¬ 
trol Board, 148 F. (2d) 265. 

27th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains waste- 
paper regulation, based on standards and 
specifications not generally in use in the trade 
or otherwise required (Taft amendment), on 
finding no practical alternative for price con¬ 
trol existed. Thomas Paper Stock Co. v. 
Bowles, 148 F. (2d) 831; also 66 S. Ct. 884. 

29th Emergency Court of Appeals, in a series of meat 
cases, orders OPA to make special provision to 
prevent further hardship to nonprocessing 
slaughterers, but sustains meat regulation as 
applied to major packers. Armour v. Bowles, 
148 F. (2d) 529, 546; Kahn v. Bowles, 149 F. 
(2d) 277; Heinz v. Bowles, 149 F. (2d) 577, 
cert. den. 66 S. Ct. 24. 


RATIONING 

1st Twenty percent reduction in restaurant’s food 
ration continues for March and April. 

4th Meat and some canned food points up. 

26th Relaxation of certain institutional and indus¬ 
trial users policies in the food field to enable 
veterans to start new businesses. (GRO 18) 

31st Stock pile of new prewar cars down to 5,000; 
April quota 1,500. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

5th Senate Agriculture Subcommittee investigates 
lumber shortages and lumber price regulations. 

5th Smith Committee starts hearings on the gov¬ 
ernment’s proposed textile and apparel pro¬ 
gram—OPA’s MAP regulation and WPB’s 
M-388 allocations—and then decides to hold 
off and watch operations awhile. 

20th Smith Committee hears candymakers and 
other industrial sugar users complain of 
allocations. 

26th Senate Agriculture Committee opens hearings 
on meat shortages and hardships of nonprocess¬ 
ing slaughterers under ceilings. At the close 
Chairman Thomas introduces amendment for 
relief of independent packers, later superseded 
by compromise amendment requiring calcula¬ 
tion of ceiling for pork, beef, lamb, etc., prod¬ 
ucts separately. 


March 1945 

OTHER EVENTS 

7th Allies cross Rhine at Remagen. 

7th William H. Davis replaces Fred M. Vinson as 
Director of Economic Stabilization. 

17th End of Jap opposition on I wo Jima. 

23d Four other allied armies cross Rhine. 

ADMINISTRATION 

1st Louis J. Kroeger succeeds George J. Nealans 
as Director of Administrative Services. 

16th John G. Neukom becomes Director of Local 
Board Operations succeeding James C. 
Derieux. 

Announcement of program to have veterans’ advis¬ 
ers in all OPA offices. 

ENFORCEMENT 

Appropriation obtained to treble meat enforcement 
staff. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

First quarter 1945 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)-.-- 

War Spending (annual rate).... 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)-- 

Public Debt (end of quarter)- 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter)... 

_ $167.6 billion.... 

_ $82.9 billion.... 

__ $105.0 billion.... 

. _ $235.1 billion._ 

51.4 million... 

Up 2.8 percent. 

Up 0.5 percent. 

Up 3.7 percent. 

Up 1.3 percent. 

Off 1.3 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 126.8 - 

Down 0.1 from Feb. 


















April 1945 


PRICE 

1st Preticketed retail ceilings on new pianos keep 
prewar list prices, with dealers absorbing 13 
percent increase to manufacturers the previous 
fall. (Order 2525, MPR 188) 

1st Fresh and frozen fish (North Atlantic species) 
brought under new single regulation reducing 
handlers’ margins to reduce consumer prices. 
(MPR 579) 

6th Women’s fur coats brought under highest- 
price-line limits specified in dollar-and-cent 
prices for 27 categories. (Am. 7, MPR 178) 

14th Slight roll-back on cotton prints. 

15th Passenger tire prices cut 6 percent, truck and 
bus 7/2 percent at retail. (Am. 6, RMPR 
143; Am. 1, MPR 528) 

17th Slaughter ceilings for April, May, June permit 
slaughter of higher proportion of good and 
choice cattle. (Am. 2, MPR 574) 

25th Preticketed prices on refrigerators and electric 
ranges at March 1942 levels, indicating no gen¬ 
eral reconversion increase in this field. 
(Order 175, MPR 64) 

28th Maximum Average Price Order (MAP). A 
new type of control which keeps clothing manu¬ 
facturers’ average price by category to 1943 
average. (SO 108) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Five orders extending price control, including proc¬ 
essed grains for animal and poultry feed. 

Sixteen dollar-and-cent actions, including used lum¬ 
ber, used beer kegs. 

Six roll-backs, including Virginia anthracite, sleep¬ 
ing pillows. 

Forty-seven actions increasing prices, including steel 
pipes for oil fields, shoe repair leather, bleached cheese 
cloth. 

Seven decontrol actions, including imported Swiss 
watches with 15 or more jewels. 


ADMINISTRATION 

16th Allen Coe made Director of Office of War 
Goods in the Price Department. 

25th John J. Madigan in charge of Meat Control 
Program. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 127.1 


up 

0.3 

from March 


OTHER EVENTS 


RATIONING 

1st Tire quota down 37/4 percent from March, 
carbon black shortage responsible. 

1st Pork, lard, cooking oil, margarine points 
up. 

30th Livestock slaughter in nonfederally inspected 
plants brought under direct OPA control. 
Quotas to limit slaughtering in these channels 
to 1944 output so as to direct normal portion 
into interstate shipment through federally 
inspected plants. Farmers slaughtering less 
than three tons a year required to register with 
local boards for meat sold, others under the 
order to deal with OPA district offices. (CO 1) 

30th Tighter procedure for sugar allotments for vet¬ 
erans setting up new businesses, to cut down 
abuses. 


1st Okinawa invaded. 

2d Byrnes resigns as Director of OWMR. 

12th Death of President Roosevelt—Vice President 
Truman steps up. 

16th WPB Chairman Krug outlines policy and pro¬ 
cedures for relaxing controls after VE-day. 

20th Russian tanks into Berlin. 

25th United States and Russian troops meet at the 
Elbe. 

Food shortage, much publicity about black markets 
in meat. 


LITIGATION 

16th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains OPA pro¬ 
vision for determining rent adjustments when 
substantial improvements in accommodations 
have been made since the maximum rent date. 
Homewood Development Co. v. Bowles, 148 
F. (2d) 850. 





PRICE 


RATIONING 


1st Two percent increase in bituminous coal prices 
reflecting recent wage increases. (Am. 137 
MPR 120) 

8 th Amendments to meat price regulations de¬ 
signed to aid stricter enforcement. 

11th Two cent deposit authorized for garment hang¬ 
ers. (2d SSR 17, RMPR 165) 

12th Sale of loose cigarettes prohibited to aid en¬ 
forcement of package price ceilings. (Am. 1, 
SR 14D) 

14th MAP (Maximum Average Prices) extended to 
rayon. (SO 110) 

19th New regulation on mixed feeds. (MPR 585) 

19th Manufacturers’ 1941 list prices of aluminum 
cooking utensils established as ceilings, prelim¬ 
inary to reconversion survey. These items 
were out of production before price control be¬ 
gan. (Order 3827, MPR 188) 

23d Increases for additional steel mill products, 
with partial absorption required of warehous¬ 
es and jobbers. (Am. 13, RPS 6; Am. 31, 
RPS 49) 

26th May 1 bituminous coal increases reflected in 
to coke and lake-dock coal price rises. 

28th 

30th Wheat ceilings up 3 '/%$ per bushel to reflect 
parity. (Am. 2, RMPR 487) 

During the Month 

Two orders extending price control to hay and straw. 

Twelve dollar-and-cent actions including zinc scrap, 
western pulpwood. 

Six roll-backs including fresh sweet cherries. 

Forty-five actions increasing prices including utility 
shirts, rubber drug sundries, dressed hogs, wholesale 
pork cuts, building lime, quarry limestone, cheddar 
cheese, Chrysler trucks, ground mica. 

Four decontrol actions including 1925 and earlier 
automobiles, fresh dates. 


1st Canning sugar allowance cut, boards limited to 
70 percent of 1944 issuance. 

10th Fuel oil renewals for 1945—46 authorized. 

13th Fats and oil points up. 

19th May-June quotas for nonfederally inspected 
slaughterers set. Hogs 50 percent, cattle 75 
percent, sheep and lamb 100 percent of 1944 
base. 


ENFORCEMENT 

7th Seven hundred and forty-five suits brought 

to against meat wholesalers. 

19th 

17th OPA, instead of WFA, will certify subsidy 
to amounts slaughterers will get from DSC. 
22d Subsidies may be withheld from viola¬ 
tors of price or ration regulations in accord¬ 
ance with OES Directive 41 of April 24. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Fred Parker succeeds John G. Neukom as 
Director of the Automotive Supply Rationing 
Division. 

1st George Moncharsh succeeds Tom Emerson as 
Deputy Administrator for Enforcement. 

16th Robert R. R. Brooks succeeds Alfred B. Stan¬ 
ford as Deputy Administrator for Information. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

8 th House Special Committee starts hearings to in¬ 
vestigate food shortages—sugar, meat, dairy 
products. 


LITIGATION 

15th Emergency Court of Appeals upholds ceilings 
on Vitamin A concentrates and restrictions on 
blending concentrates with natural oils of lower 
potency, as proper to prevent evasion. Vita¬ 
mins, Inc., v. Bowles, 149 F. (2d) 497. 


May 1945 

OTHER EVENTS 

8 th VE-day. 

9th Midnight curfew and racing ban ends. 

16th WPB’s Iron and Steel Conservation Order M- 
126 repealed (in effect since May 20, 1942). 
At this time some 133 other limitation orders 
have been suspended. 

23d Truman’s cabinet changes: Lewis B. Schwel- 
lenbach, Labor; Clinton P. Anderson, Agri¬ 
culture; Tom C. Clark, Attorney General. 

29th Construction controls eased by amendment to 
L-41 (WPB). 

Meat still scarce and the subject of universal com¬ 
plaint. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 128.1 


up 

1.0 

from April 




PRICE—Continued 


June 1945 


PRICE 

2d New product pricing for most consumer dur¬ 
able manufacturers transferred to OPA Dis¬ 
trict Offices. (Am. 55, MPR 188) 

9th MAP (maximum average prices) extended to 
woolen fabrics. (SO 113) 

11th Flour purchasers for future delivery may guar¬ 
antee any increase in wheat costs if subsidies are 
removed or decreased. (Am. 8, RMPR 296) 

18th Anthracite coal up, reflecting wage increases. 

21st Adjustable pricing for cotton textile mills sub¬ 
ject to textile wage increases. (SO 114) 

30th Rayon MAP up. (Am. 2, SO 110) 

30th Ceilings for whiskey distilled during July alco¬ 
hol ‘‘holiday” same as for January “holiday” 
production. (Am. 8, MPR 540) 


During the Month 

Four orders extending price control, all trivial. 

Twenty-eight dollar-and-cent actions, including 
buna and neoprene strip rubber, canned quahog 
clams, grain sorghums. 

Twelve roll-backs, including eastern-grown sweet 
peppers, low-grade whiskey blends. 

Forty-seven actions increasing prices, including 
Douglas fir stock millwork, cast-iron soil pipe, wooden 
bobbins and spools, lightweight book paper, wood 
rosins. 

Seven decontrol actions, including cabbages and cu¬ 
cumbers for limited periods. 

ADMINISTRATION 

4th Paul S. Lawrence appointed Veterans’ Adviser 
to the Administrator. 

16th Herman A. Greenberg succeeds Robert Finley 
as Director of Food Enforcement Division. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 


Second quarter 1945 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)__ ... _. 

War Spending (annual rate)__ 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)_ . _ 

Public Debt (end of quarter)____ 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter) 

_ $166.2 billion.... 

. . ... $85.7 billion._ 

_ $101.8 billion_ 

. _ $259.1 billion.... 

52.4 million... 

Off 0.9 percent. 

Up 3.4 percent. 

Off 3.0 percent. 

Up 11.6 percent. 

Up 1.9 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 1 90.0 

< 

Up 0.9 from May 

Up 17.0 from Jan. ‘42. 
Up 8.3 from Jan. ’43. 

Up 4.8 from Jan. ’44. 

Up 1.9 from Jan. ‘45. 



RATIONING 

6th Relaxation of automobile rationing: (1) Re¬ 
moval of quotas on new 1942 cars; (2) Re¬ 
moval of used 1942 cars from rationing. 

11th A-coupon value up to 6 gallons of gasoline. 

16th Veterans entering the candy business get in¬ 
creased sugar “base”; 16,000 lb. instead of 
8,000 lb. 

17 th Distribution control of meat established. 
Slaughterers must deliver into each county 
80-90 percent of their 1944 deliveries. 

30th Extra food rations for miners, broadest appli¬ 
cation of supplementary food rationing. 

Passenger tire quota up again to 2,500,000. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

20th Smith Committee hears protests against MAP 
regulations from textile and apparel industries; 
complaints that low-cost fabrics needed for 
compliance are unavailable. 

LEGISLATION 

4th House Banking and Currency Committee 

to hearings on renewal of Price Control Act. 

14 th 

28th Congressional passage of Price Control renewal 

to bill is flown to Missouri for President’s signature 

30th on June 30th to avoid lapse of price control. 


OTHER EVENTS 

7th General Omar N. Bradley to head Veterans’ 
Administration. 

22d Okinawa Campaign ends. 

23d War Department announces 50 percent cut¬ 
back in production of artillery shells. 

26th San Francisco meeting of United Nations ends 
as delegates sign charter. 


LITIGATION 

1st Emergency Court of Appeals sustains reduc¬ 
tions in rent ceilings where landlord’s free pri¬ 
vate-bus service is discontinued on ODT order. 
Absar Realty Co. v. Bowles, 149 F. (2d) 654. 

4th Supreme Court, reversing lower courts, ap¬ 
proves OPA interpretation of GMPR, that base 
period prices for deliveries actually made de¬ 
termine ceilings, not higher offering prices. 
Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 
U. S. 410. 

6th Emergency Court of Appeals holds that 21st 
(Prohibition repeal) Amendment to the 
Constitution does not bar price ceilings on 
liquor, and that alcoholic beverages are not 
“agricultural commodities” requiring approval 
of Secretary of Agriculture before ceilings can 
be imposed. Martin G. Taub v. Bowles, 149 
F. (2d) 817. 

25th Emergency Court of Appeals rejects attack by 
New York City realty interests on rent ceilings 
in that area, but holds OPA must afford relief 
to landlords renting accommodations at $100 
or more a month. 315 West 97th St. Realty 
Co., et al., v. Bowles, 150 F. (2d) 982. 

28th Emergency Court of Appeals sets aside ceilings 
on coke for industrial use, when determined by 
base-period deliveries under long-term, non- 
adjustable contracts, as discriminatory in favor 
of sellers who could get base-period asking 
price. Hudson Valley Fuel Corp. v. Bowles, 
150 F. (2d) 415. 

















PRICE 

1 st Live poultry prices up, zones replacing basing 
points. (Am. 8, 2d RMPR 269) 

1st Slaughter percentages of good and choice 
grades of meat reduced for the July-Septem- 
ber period. (Am. 5, Order 1, MPR 574) 

1 st Wool MAP base shifted from 1943 to 1945. 
(Am. 1, SO 113) 

2d Canned citrus fruit prices fixed on uniform 
basis for each can size, regardless of grade. 

2d Nail prices up 350 per cwt. at retail, as result 
of uniform mark-up. (Am. 7, 2d, RSR 14) 

3d Furniture wholesalers brought under new pric¬ 
ing-chart regulation. (MPR 590) 

12th Shoe jobbers brought under order limiting new¬ 
comers, to prevent pyramiding of mark-ups by 
dummy jobbers. (SO 120) 

19th Specific ceilings on hourly rates for construc¬ 
tion equipment maintenance services. (Am. 
19, MPR 134) 

20th Disaster increases on berries, apples, cherries, 

to potatoes, in various localities. 

21 st 

21st Roll-back of converter and jobber prices of fin¬ 
ished piece goods. (Am. 32, MPR 127) 

23d Announcement of procedure for securing in¬ 
dividual price adjustments under the reconver¬ 
sion pricing program. Taking 1941 costs, in¬ 
creases in material and basic wage rates are 
added, and any increase over 1936—39 per¬ 
cent profit deducted to arrive at allowable in¬ 
crease over October 1941 price. (SO 118 
SO 119) 

24th Wool MAP again revised, shifting base to 1944 
and relaxing requirement for third and fourth 
quarters. (RSO 113, retroactive to January 
1 ) 

28th By-product coke adjustment authorized, to 
conform with Emergency Court of Appeals 
decision. (Am. 3, MPR 29) 

30th Additional adjustments announced for piano 
manufacturers. (2d Rev. Order 2525, MPR 
188) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Two actions extending price control to live and proc¬ 
essed guineas (young and old), California juice grapes. 

Eighteen dollar-and-cent actions, including civilian 
jeeps, hearing-aid batteries. 

Fifty-one actions increasing prices, including mail¬ 
ing charges on c. o. d. sales, flue-cured tobacco, air 
shipments of fruits and vegetables. 

ADMINISTRATION 

1st Frank E. Manuel returns to OPA as Director 
of Program Division, Rent Department, suc¬ 
ceeding Norton E. Long. 

1st John A. Gorfinkel succeeds G. Brainerd Currie 
as Director of Rent and Services Enforcement 
Division. 

5th OPA appropriation for the fiscal year 1946, 
$174,500,000. 

ACCOUNTING 

Cost accounting problems increased in such fields as 
meat because of product costing provisions in the 1945 
OPA Extension Act. 

ENFORCEMENT 

27th OPA investigators arrest three men in Dallas, 
Texas, for traffic in counterfeit gasoline and 
sugar stamps. 


RATIONING 


1st Slaughter percentages for nonfederally in¬ 
spected plants increased on cattle and lamb, re¬ 
flecting cut in army set-aside. 

10th Nation-wide inventory for shoe dealers. 

15th Butter points dropped from 24 to 16, because 
of cut in military needs. 

18th New 1942 cars removed from rationing. 

23d Zero points on soft lamb in Oregon. 

LITIGATION 

6 th Emergency Court of Appeals holds milk ceilings 
in Norfolk, Va. valid, even for a dairy operat¬ 
ing at a loss, since most dairies in the area were 
operating more profitably than before the war. 
Birtchard Dairy v. Bowles, 156 F. (2d) 1004 

9th Emergency Court of Appeals orders rehearing 
of need for rent increases for higher-priced New 
York City rental properties. 

11th Federal District Court in Pennsylvania sustains 
OPA enforcement suits against so-called “co¬ 
operative” formed by retailers to operate at a 
loss in procuring meat, as evasion of meat ceil¬ 
ings. Bowles v. Villari, 61 F. Supp. 784. 

31st Emergency Court of Appeals on review of new 
evidence secured by OPA on actual operating 
results of nonprocessing slaughterers for 1944- 
holds the record now “amply supports” valid¬ 
ity of meat ceilings; original opinion reversed. 
Heinzv. Bowles, 150 F. (2d) 546 


July 1945 


OTHER EVENTS 

2d James F. Byrnes becomes Secretary of State. 

6 th ODT bans short-run sleeping car accommoda¬ 
tions. 

10th Heavy attacks on Japan. 

17th Potsdam conference—Truman, Stalin, and 
Churchill. 

23d John M. Snyder made Director of OWMR, 
Vinson goes to Treasury. 

25th OES Directive 68 describes conditions under 
which OPA may decontrol commodities. 

26th Labor landslide in British election makes 
Clement Attlee Prime Minister, replacing 
Winston Churchill. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

30th Senate Small Business Committee opens inves¬ 
tigation of Amendment 9 to Ration Order 5 
cutting down fats and oils allocations to res¬ 
taurants. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 129.4 

up 

0.4 

from June 




August 1945 


PRICE 

1st Cotton warehousing rates up. 

1st Sales of used cars at warranted prices restricted 
to sellers authorized by OPA district offices. 
(Am. 7, MPR 540) 

7th Adjustable pricing extended to additional cot¬ 
ton textile products awaiting ceiling increases. 
(RSO 114) 

13th Reconversion adjustments extended to building 
material, rubber, and machinery fields. (Am. 
2, SO 118; Am. 2, SO 119) 

15th Price Department issues 184 decontrol actions, 

to 134 of them on VJ-day, removing from con¬ 
sist trol aluminum, magnesium, aircraft, ships, 

many items of industrial equipment, minor food 
products, other articles unimportant to the cost 
of living or business cost. (SO 126, SO 129, 
SO 132) 

18th Cotton and wool knitwear MAP relaxed. 

(Spec. Order 2, SO 108) 

19th Bowles’ statement on reconversion prices says 
1942 prices will be the goal. 

21st Base period profit factors for eight product 
groups such as hardware, machinery, washing 
machines, stoves, vacuum cleaners added to 
reconversion pricing orders. (Am. 3, SO 118, 
Am. 3, SO 119) 

2 2d Pricing for resales of Government surplus sim¬ 

plified. (Am. 5, SO 94) 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 129.3 

down 

0.1 

from July 


PRICE—Continued 

23d Reconversion pricing formula authorized for 
to applications on an industry-wide basis for 
31st durable goods and building materials largely 
out of production during the war (Am. 67, 
MPR 188); and for automobile manufac¬ 
turers individually. (MPR 594) 

27th Five-cent-a-cup coffee still five cents. (Am. 4, 
Rest. MPR 2) 

31st Automobile parts to car manufacturers exempt 
from price control. (Am. 1, SO 129) 

During the Month 

Four actions extending price control to such unim¬ 
portant commodities as used slack barrels at the 
dumper and emptier level. 

Twenty-four dollar-and-cent price actions, includ¬ 
ing used household refrigerators. 

Fifteen roll-backs including green and partly cured 
hides, aircraft tires, and tubes. 

Forty-three actions increasing prices, including cold- 
finished steel bars, dry roofing felt, gypsum lath, cast 
iron radiators, western frozen fish, yellow cypress. 


ENFORCEMENT 

1st Eighteen men indicted in Los Angeles for 
black market meat deals involving swank 
restaurants. 

30th Anti-inflation food shopping lists introduced 
for public reporting of price violations through 
Local Boards. 


ACCOUNTING 

Accounting studies of reconverting companies and in¬ 
dustries become an important part of the work of 
the department. 


RATIONING 

1st Gas stoves removed from rationing. 

1st Nonfederally inspected plants authorized to 
slaughter 100 percent of quota base for all 
species. 

1st Special gasoline ration up to 30 gallons for 
discharged veterans. 

15th VJ-day brings end of rationing for gasoline, 
fuel oil, stoves, processed foods. 

17 th Farm implement tires removed from rationing. 

17th Passenger tire eligibility rules relaxed. 

ADMINISTRATION 

18th Tulsa, Okla., District Office closed. 

27th J. H. Reppert succeeds Sumner T. Pike as 
Head of the Fuel Price Division. 

31st Joint management plan announced for con¬ 
solidation and liquidation of Local Boards and 
District Offices. At the time there were 93 Dis¬ 
trict Offices and 5,428 Local Boards. 

31st James F. Brownlee resigns as Deputy Admin¬ 
istrator for Price. Replaced by Jerome M. 
Ney for Congressional Hearings and Geoffrey 
Baker in charge of the Price Department. 

31st On VJ-day OPA had 63,217 paid employees. 
By the end of the month the number was 
down 2,408, to 60,809. 


OTHER EVENTS 

2d Potsdam Conference ends. 

6 th Atom bomb on Hiroshima. 

8 th Atom bomb on Nagasaki. 

15th VJ-day. 

18th New wage-price policy (EO 9599). Wage in¬ 
creases may be made without Government 
approval, but unapproved increases may not 
be used as a base for an application to increase 
prices. 

20th WPB cancels 210 orders making estimated 
85 percent of industry free of production con¬ 
trols. 

21st Lend lease ends. 

21st WPB ends ban on industrial construction. 

Army and Navy cancel 32 billion dollars in war 

contracts. 


LITIGATION 

1st Federal Circuit Court of Appeals holds the 
Price Administrator can delegate to field at¬ 
torneys the bringing of treble-damage suits, and 
need not pass on each case personally. Bowles 
v. Sheeler, 152 F. (2d) 34, cert. den. 66 S. 
Ct. 265. 326 U. S. 775. 

14th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains dry lima 
bean ceilings against broad attack, challenging 
OPA interpretation of provisions relating to 
agricultural commodities and legality of War 
Food Administrator’s operations. Calif. Lima 
Bean Growers Assn. v. Bowles, 150 F. (2d) 
965. 

29th Emergency Court of Appeals holds price ceil¬ 
ings on liquor apply even in Mississippi, which 
has a State prohibition law. Barnett v. 
Bowles, 151 F. (2d) 77, cert, den., 326 U. S. 
766 







PRICE 


PRICE—Continued 


j st Refinery increase of / 8 cent a gallon on stand- 
to ard grade gasoline, marking restoration of 
7 th standard octane rating and end of PAW quality 
controls. (Am. 32, MPR 88) 

East Coast gas and fuel oil reduced about 1 $ 
at retail reflecting return of tanker shipments. 
(Am. 13, RMPR 137) 

1st Specific limits on labor time to be charged 
for common automobile repair jobs. (SSR 49, 
RMPR 165) 

4th Clothing MAP relaxed by provision of exemp¬ 
tion prices and sliding scale increases by cate¬ 
gories. (Spec. Order 3, SO 108) 

5th Pricing methods for disposal of terminated war 
contractors’ inventories. (SO 130) 

5th Simple automatic pricing formula announced 
for new small-volume durable goods manufac¬ 
turers to encourage new postwar ventures. 
(Order 4332, MPR 188) 

5th Midwest cement up 10 cents a barrel to com¬ 
pensate for low production rate. (Am. 11, 
MPR 224) 

10th Pricing 1945 pack of canned fruits and vege¬ 
tables allows cannery wage raise increases but 
requires reductions where unsubsidized raw 
farm produce is bought below ceiling. 

10th Reconversion increases for aluminum cooking 
utensil manufacturers, prewar retail list prices 
held. (Order 1, MPR 188) 

10th Stock millwork pricing tightened. (Am. 9, 
RMPR 293) 

10th Bankhead increases up to 25 percent on major 
to textiles reflecting parity increases and wage 
17th rate rises. Two bands of prices depending on 
mill payment of wage increases (SO 131). 
End of adjustable pricing for products covered. 

12th Limitation on slaughter percentages of good 
and choice cattle lifted because of the large 
number of nonfederally inspected plants re¬ 
ceiving Agriculture Department permission to 
ship interstate. (MPR574) 

15th “General rescue” individual adjustments au¬ 
thorized for manufacturers of non-reconversion 
goods in hardship cases. (SO 133) 


16 th Area pricing orders on building materials to be 

issued by Regional Offices in program to sta¬ 
bilize postwar building costs. (GO 68) 

17 th Ten percent increase on base period prices of 

gray iron castings. (AM. 10, MPR 244) 

19th Eight percent increase for stamping and screw 
machine products, ferrous forgings. (Am. 6, 
MPR 351; Am. 11, MPR 136) 

24th MAP plan for cigars relaxed. (Am. 14, MPR 
260) 

29th Eighteen percent industry-wide increase on 
wood radio cabinets. (Order 2, Sec. 159e, 
MPR 188) 

During fhe Month 

Two actions extending price control to imported hops, 
cocoa bought abroad. 

Twenty-five dollar-and-cent actions including steel 
container drums, pails, canned tuna, wooden beverage 
cases, aerosol insecticide bombs. 

Ten roll-backs including elastic webbing and braid, 
pastrami. 

Fifty-one actions increasing prices including anthra¬ 
cite coal, hickory and ash logs, aluminum cooking uten¬ 
sils, vitrified clay sewer pipe. 

Forty-five decontrol actions including potatoes for a 
limited time, many minor food products and unim¬ 
portant durable goods. 

ADMINISTRATION 

9th Samuel Levitties, formerly Branch Chief of Ap¬ 
parel, made Director of the Consumer Goods 
Price Division, succeeding Jerome M. Ney. 

10th John F. Gismond succeeds Geoffrey Baker as 
Director of the Food Price Division. 

15th Six District Offices closed—Duluth, Minn., La 
Crosse, Wis., Moline, Ill., North Platte, Neb., 
Shreveport, La., Sioux City, Iowa, Lubbock, 
Texas. 

24th Services and Foreign Trade Price Division 
abolished with resignation of Frederick 
Roselius. 


RATIONING 

1st Coal and fire wood rationing ends, a program 
in effect only in the Northwest. 

2d Meat, fat, and oil points down. 

5th Rubber boot rationing ends. 

10th Shoe exports made ration free. 

12 th Cheese off rationing. 

12th Slaughter control suspended, reflecting both re¬ 
duced army needs and increased domestic 
supply. 

18th Bus and truck tire quotas up. 

27th Zero point values on lower grades of beef and 
lamb. 

30th Four red points per pound to be paid instead 
of two for salvage fats. 

ADMINISTRATION—Continued 

24th Jacob D. Hyman succeeds Nathaniel Nathan- 
son as Associate General Counsel for Court Re¬ 
view. 

30th During the month OPA force was reduced by 
15,928—from 60,809 to 44,881. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

27th Smith Committee starts hearings on OPA re¬ 
conversion pricing policy, turning presently to 
review NRDGA’s “horror exhibit.” 


September 1945 


OTHER EVENTS 

2d Japan surrenders to MacArthur aboard the 
battleship Missouri. 

6th Truman’s 8-point legislative program asks Con¬ 
gress to act on war powers and controls, taxes, 
“Full Employment Bill.” 

11th London Conference of Foreign Ministers. 

14th United Automobile Workers ask 30 percent 
wage increase. 

19th Labor Department absorbs remnants of WMC 
and WLB. OES merged with OWMR. 

27 th Foreign Economic Administration (FEA) 
abolished. 

30th WPB’s Controlled Materials Plan replaced by 
simple priority system. 

Public turns the heat on Congress to speed demobi¬ 
lization. 

Approximately 648,000 men discharged from 

armed services. 

RENT 

10th Eviction procedures tightened by increasing 
waiting time for new owner to occupy pur¬ 
chased property from three months to six. 

10th Landlords may no longer evict for major altera¬ 
tions. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

Third quarter 1945 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate). - -__ 

War Spending (annual rate).. ___ . . _ 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)-- 

Public Debt (end of quarter).. .. 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter) 


Off 4.7 percent. 

Off 22.5 percent. 

Up 4.1 percent. 

Up 1.4 percent. 

Up 3.4 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 128.9- 

Down 0.4 from Auqust. 
























October 1945 


PRICE 

3d Industry-wide application of reconversion 
formula for repricing goods out of production 
during the war extended to machine parts and 
industrial equipment. (Order 506, Am. 15, 
RMPR 136) 

3d Base period “profit factors” published for use 
in reconversion formula pricing for nine groups 
of commodities not produced during the war. 
(Am. 4, 5, SO 118, 119) 

4th Bankhead increases on bed linens result in 
about 10 percent price rise at retail. (Am. 6, 
MPR580) 

4th 7 percent reconversion increase on washing 

to machines contingent on keeping low-end model 

7th output, a policy publicly challenged by the 
Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, makers 
of Thor Washers. Increase temporarily de¬ 
nied this firm. (MPR 86) 

9th Tobacco retailers who gave away book matches 
in 1942 must still do so in 1945. (Am. 4, MPR 
365) 

9th General rise of 5 to 10 percent on live hogs to 

to halt diversion from customary marketing chan- 

12th nels in certain midwest areas. New restriction 
aimed at tie-in sales, other evasions. (Am. 15, 
16, MPR 469) 

10th Labor allowance on common automobile repair 
jobs increased one-third. (Am. 4, SSR 49, 
RMPR 165) 

10 th 17 percent reconversion increase on lawn mow¬ 
ers. (Order 2, Sec. 159e, MPR 188) 


PRICE—Continued 

11th Increases on radio parts about double the in¬ 
terim increases of August—called still too low 
by industry. (Am. 18, RMPR 136) 

15th Elaborate dollar-and-cent prices for used busi¬ 
ness machines. (MPR 596) 

16th Reconversion formula modified to remove “best 
selling article” method of calculation for large 
producers of goods not made during war. 
Change made because of vagaries which de¬ 
veloped in early applications. (SO 119) 

22d March 1942 ceilings reestablished for house¬ 
hold refrigerator manufacturers with individ¬ 
ual reconversion adjustments authorized. 
(MPR 598) 

30th Graduated increases of 10 to 15 percent by 
price lines on radios and phonographs with 
higher percentage increases on low priced 
models. (MPR 599; Am. 70, MPR 188) 

During the Month 

Two actions extending price control including ma¬ 
hogany in limited areas. 

Nineteen dollar-and-cent actions including cotton 
tire cord and fabric, imported anchovies. 

Eleven roll-backs, including regrooved tires, cran¬ 
berry sauce and fresh cranberries. 

Ninety-four actions increasing prices, including en¬ 
velopes, building lime, copper castings, phosphate 
rock, builders hardware, fractional horsepower motors, 
pig iron, sponge rubber products, bedspreads and other 
household textiles. 

Fifty decontrol actions including cotton ginning 
services and a wide variety of items unimportant to the 
cost of living, including some sporting goods, miscel¬ 
laneous foods, industrial products, and minor house¬ 
hold gadgets. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 128.9 
same 

as September 


RATIONING 


OTHER EVENTS 


2d Industrial users of fats and oils get 5 percent 
increase for current quarter. 

29th Automobile rationing ends. 

30th Shoe rationing ends. 


ADMINISTRATION 


3d London conference of foreign ministers ends 
with no agreement. 

15th Cancellation of L-41, WPB restriction order 
on building and construction. 

24th Nazi leaders indicted. 

30th Truman reaffirms Government wage-price 
policies to restore collective bargaining and 
free markets, prevent inflation or deflation. 

Approximately 1,397,000 men discharged from the 

armed services. 


1st Ben C. Duniway succeeds Charles R. Baird as 
Regional Administrator in San Francisco. 

8 th Maurice W. Lee made Executive Assistant to 
the Administrator, succeeding Robert R. R. 
Brooks. 

15th Three District Offices closed—Fresno, Sacra¬ 
mento, San Diego, California. 

16th Leland Barrows succeeds H. Burke Fry as 
Budget Director. 

17th John D. Moseley succeeds Louis J. Kroeger as 
Director of Administrative Services. 

22d James S. Scully made Head of the Office of 
Price Board Management, succeeding John G. 
Neukom. 

22d John F. Kessel succeeds Birkett L. Williams as 
Regional Administrator in Cleveland. 

30th During the month, force reduced by 3,008 from 
44,881 to 41,873. 

31st During the month, 1,791 boards were closed, 
leaving 3,309 operating. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

11th Senate Agriculture Committee hears testimony 
attacking validity of grain ceilings, including 
new regulation on rye, under parity pricing 
standards. 

22d Smith Committee report criticizes reconversion 
pricing policy and cost absorption requirements 
for wholesalers and retailers. 

23d Senate Small Business Committee starts hear¬ 
ings on housing shortage, construction and 
housing price controls. 




PRICE 


RATIONING 


1 st Butter prices up five to six cents a pound as 
subsidy ends. To prevent windfall profits 
sellers holding 1,000 pounds or more must keep 
ceilings or return subsidy payments on in¬ 
ventories. 

1st Specific preticketed prices for more low-priced 
clothing. (2d RMPR 578) 

2d Fourteen percent increase on metal toys to 
stimulate Christmas sales. (Order 4, Sec. 
159e, MPR 188) 

5th Consumer durable manufacturers new goods 
pricing now calculated on current instead of 
March 1942 cost data. (Am. 69, MPR 188) 

13th Increases up to 15 percent on additional low- 
end apparel items. (SO 139) 

19th Fresh citrus fruits suspended from price con¬ 
trol because of downward price trend. (Am. 

9, SO 132) 

19th Studebaker and Ford car prices up 6 and 12 
percent respectively. (Order 3, 4, MPR 594) 

19th Foreign purchase price of green coffee up, with 
RFC subsidy to maintain domestic prices. 
(Am. 13, RPS 50) 

20th Reconversion nylon hosiery prices down 25 
percent from current prices. (MPR 602) 

During the Month 

Nine roll-backs including eastern heavy residual fuel 

oils, juice grapes. 

Seventy-six actions increasing prices including in¬ 
dividual increases for truck manufacturers ranging up 
to 40 percent, low-priced builders’ hardware, bicycle 
tires, mince meat, various cotton textiles, utility shirts, 
gypsum lath and plaster, steel castings. 

Eighteen decontrol actions including wine and cigar 

tobacco. 


5th Cough drop manufacturers qualify for phar¬ 
maceutical sugar quota. 

24th Meat-fat rationing ends. 

ADMINISTRATION 

5th David Cavers succeeds Henry Hart as Associ¬ 
ate General Counsel for Price. 

8 th Leo F. Gentner succeeds Daniel P. Woolley as 
Regional Administrator in New York. 

13th Milton Klein returns to OPA as Director of 
Litigation Division, Enforcement Department, 
succeeding Fleming James. 

19th John A. Gorfinkel succeeds Byron S. Miller as 
Executive Officer of the Enforcement Depart¬ 
ment. 

29th Colin S. Gordon succeeds John F. Gismond 
as Director of Food Price Division. 

30th During the month, 771 boards were closed, 
leaving 2,538 operating. District Offices were 
closed in Escanaba, Mich., and Lexington, Ky. 


RENT 

23d Allowances made for increased cost of new 
construction. 

LITIGATION 

13th Supreme Court sustains OPA power to obtain 
information by subpena, even from a national 
bank already subject to inspection by another 
Government agency. Bowles v. Shawano 
National Bank, 151 F. (2d) 749, cert. den. 66 
S. Ct. 660. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

8 th Patman Committee holds hearing for National 
Automobile Dealers Association on absorption 
of manufacturing price increases, attended by 
over 300 Members of Congress—a record. 


November 1945 


OTHER EVENTS 

5th Labor-Management conference in Washing¬ 
ton, without issue. 

21st General Motors strike starts. 

21st Nuremberg trials begin. 

27th OES Directive 78 rules out automatic reflec¬ 
tion of future material and wage increases 
in calculations under reconversion pricing 
formula. 

Millions of words printed about the atomic bomb 
and atomic energy. 

Approximately 1,967,000 men discharged from the 
armed services. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 129.3 


up 

0.4 

from October 




December 1945 


PRICE 

1st Pool and billiard parlors, bowling alleys out 
from price control. (Am. 67, SR 11) 

11th Individual price adjustment provisions revised 
for makers of industrial machinery and allied 
products—new method similar to reconversion 
pricing formula. 

13 th Innerspring mattresses up 16 percent over pre¬ 
war prices. Absorption at retail. (Order 5, 
Sec. 159e, MPR 188) 

21st Vacuum cleaner manufacturers’ ceilings up 
6 percent with consumer prices at March 1942 
levels. (RMPR 111) 

21st Small electrical appliance manufacturers’ ceil¬ 
ings up 8 percent with retail ceilings at March 
1942 levels. (Order 6, Sec. 159e, MPR 188) 

24th Canned citrus fruits products suspended from 
price control. (Am. 12, SO 132) 

29th Iron ore prices up. (2d RMPR 113) 

31st Clothing MAP liberalized by providing install¬ 
ment methods for manufacturers to make up 
surcharges. (Am. 9, SO 108) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Fifty-two actions increasing prices including anthra¬ 
cite coal, Southern pine lumber, many textile and 
clothing items, clay sewer pipe, West Coast logs, North¬ 
ern lumber, cast-iron soil pipe, Western brick and tile. 

Seventy-seven decontrol actions including several 
hundred items of minor importance to the cost of liv¬ 
ing* largely household articles, machine parts, indus¬ 
trial materials and services. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Doyal E. Timmons succeeds Tyrus T. Timm as 
Agricultural Adviser to the Administrator. 

17th William E. Remy made Director of Rent and 
Consumer Goods Enforcement Division, a 
combination of Rent and Services and Fuel and 
Consumer Goods. 

31st During the month 330 boards were closed, 
leaving 2,208 open. District Offices closed in 
Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Mich., Columbus and 
Toledo, Ohio. 


RENT 

Total number of areas under control, 480. Total 
population 94,000,000. 


ENFORCEMENT 

22d Indictment in Boston on conspiracy charges of 
a group of Boston and New York textile men 
diverting large volumes of priority material to 
nonpriority manufacturers at over-ceiling 
prices. Allied Cement and Chemical Co. case. 


LITIGATION 

5th Emergency Court of Appeals upholds in-line 
pricing for new garment manufacturer, using 
frozen base-period prices of established sellers 
for comparison, against complaint that result¬ 
ing price is unprofitable. Gold-Form, Inc. v. 
Bowles, 152 F. (2d) 107. 

6th New York Court of Appeals in a black market 
poultry case sustains New York City ordinance 
punishing OPA ceiling violations as local 
offenses, reinforcing State law to same effect. 
People v. Lewis, 295 N. Y. 42. 

20th Emergency Court of Appeals holds municipally 
owned housing accommodations are subject to 
OPA rent control. City of Dallas v. Bowles, 
152 F. (2d) 464. 


INFORMATION 

Motion picture “What’s Happened to Sugar?” pro¬ 
duced by OPA for use largely at club and community 
meetings. Some used in theaters through bookings by 
OPA Field Information Executives. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 


Fourth quarter 1945 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)..-... 

War Spending (annual rate)___ 

Consumer Spending (annual rate).... 

Public Debt (end of quarter)...... 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter).. .. 

_ $150.7 billion.... 

.. $42.6 billion.... 

.. $113.0 billion.... 
. $278.7 billion.... 
51.4 million... 

Off 4.9 percent. 

Off 35.8 percent. 

Up 6.6 percent. 

Up 6.1 percent. 

Off 0.4 percent. 

Cr\n ciimsr Prire Inrlov 190 0 

< 

Up 0.6 from November 
Upl 7.9fromJan. ’42 

Up 9.2 from Jan. ‘43 

Up 5.7 from Jan. *44 
j Up 2.8 from Jan. ’45 



OTHER EVENTS 

9th Housing shortage in the news. New York 
Times reports discharged veterans eager to 
get back to barracks—with wives and families. 

15 th Moscow meeting of American, British, Russian 
foreign ministers. 

GM strike continues throughout month—others 
threaten in steel, etc. 

Talk about “fact-finding” boards for settling labor 
disputes. 

Approximately 1,403,000 men discharged from 
armed services. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

4th Senate Small Business Committee opens full- 
dress review of OPA post VJ-day policies and 
need for continuance of controls, beginning 
with OPA witnesses. 




















PRICE 

1 st New cost-plus regulation for shirts, shorts, pa¬ 
jamas, etc., aimed to roll back prices by reduc¬ 
ing average gross margins. (MPR 605) 

2d Piano manufacturers’ adjustments liberalized 
because of unfavorable experience during the 
transition. 

2d Eight percent increase on plumbing fixtures. 

2d Coal and coke up 8 percent. (Am. 40, 

RMPR 122) 

4th Citrus fruits back under price control after 
brisk rise in uncontrolled prices. (Am. 14, SO 

132) 

4th Five percent reconversion increase on wool 
rugs and carpets. 

5th Shoes priced up 4 1 / 2 percent for manufactur¬ 
ers with absorption by wholesalers and retailers. 
(Am. 21, MPR 210) 

8 th Resale of war contractors’ surplus inventories 
put under simplified marginal control. (Am. 
2, SO 122) 

9th Silverware up reflecting jump in silver cost be¬ 
cause the United States Treasury stopped sell¬ 
ing silver for industrial use with expiration of 
the Green Act. (Rev. Order 226, MPR 

188) 

9th Twelve percent increase on printing presses 
and machinery. 

11th Rayon MAP revised to exclude certain high- 
cost fabrics from computation. (Am. 4, SO 
110 ) 

12th Graduated increases on household furniture 
with largest increases on essential low-end items. 
Partial absorption at retail. (Order 4800, 
MPR 188) 

14th Ceilings on used 1946 cars same as for new 
cars, to curb evasion. (Am. 12, MPR 540) 

15th Cotton “proposed” ceilings announced to curb 
speculative rises. This gives required legal no¬ 
tice before planting but does not make ceilings 
effective without further action. 


PRICE—Continued 

15 th Bankhead Amendment increases for manufac¬ 
turers of gauze, oilcloth with absorption at 
wholesale and retail through flat mark-ups. 
Similar action on men’s handkerchiefs and 
hosiery. 

16th New automobiles. First announcement of sub- 
to stantial number of prices for new cars: Ford, 
23d all Chrysler cars, Nash. Manufacturer prices 
up, dealers’ margin cut 2/2 percent. 

28th New ceilings for frozen fruits and vegetables re¬ 
flect processors’ increases. 

During the Month 

Four actions extending price control including gum 
turpentine. 

Twenty-three dollar-and-cent actions, including in¬ 
dustrial tires. 

Sixty-five actions increasing prices, including metal 
beds, sisal pads, oil burners, glass, book papers, pressure 
valves. 

Twenty-nine decontrol actions, including raw silk, 
toys, minor food items. 


ENFORCEMENT 

11th OPA loses, on technical grounds, its largest en¬ 
forcement suit to date against a consumer dur¬ 
able goods manufacturer. Conklin Pen Co. v. 
Bowles, 152 F. (2d) 764. 


RATIONING 


1st Tire rationing ends. 

5th Rationing Department abolished, sugar ration¬ 
ing the only remaining program becomes a 
division in the Price Department. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Geoffrey Baker succeeds Jerome M. Ney as 
Deputy Administrator for Price. 

14th George A. Dice becomes Director of Sugar Ra¬ 
tioning Division in the Price Department. 

31st During the month, 323 boards were closed, 
leaving 1,885 open—the objective of the August 
1945 plan. Nine District Offices closed; Al¬ 
toona, Flarrisburg, Williamsport, Pa., Bing¬ 
hamton, N. Y., Camden, Trenton, N. J., Char¬ 
lotte, N. C., Montgomery, Ala., and Savan¬ 
nah, Ga. 

31st During the period since VJ-day 27 District 
Offices were closed, reducing the number from 
93 to 66. 


January 1946 


OTHER EVENTS 

2d Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) created to 
pass on allowable wage increases, to be reflected 
in ceiling price revisions. 

10th General Assembly of United Nations starts first 
meeting in London. 

15th Electrical workers strike ties up General Elec¬ 
tric, Westinghouse, Frigidaire, etc. 

16th Meat strike ties up packing houses, 
to 

19th 

21st Steel strike ties up all mills. 

29th Harry Hopkins dies. 

G. M. strike continues, with talk about “A look at 
the books”; rejection of fact-finding board report. 

Approximately 1,330,000 men discharged from 
armed services. 

Butter production down. Secretary Anderson talks 
about 18-cent increase. 

Black market meat troubles. 

In New York 50,000 show great interest in Kaiser- 
Frazer cars—not yet in production. Many place 
orders. 


INFORMATION 

Dramatic radio show, “Take Your Choice,” produced 
in Seattle by OPA Information field office. Recorded 
and furnished to 523 stations through June 1946. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 129.9 
same 


as December 




February 1946 


PRICE 

1st Cheese ceilings up, reflecting reduction of sub¬ 
sidies. 

2d New definition of “product standard” for dis¬ 
tributive trades embodied in general adjust¬ 
ment provision for wholesalers and retailers of 
consumer goods. (SO 145) 

5th Revision of pricing formula for larger manu¬ 
facturers of reconversion goods, simplifying 
and generalizing eligibility, tightening wage 
and material increase computations. (RSO 
119) 

5th Consumer durable goods manufacturers re¬ 
quired to report monthly production by price 
line as a guide to decontrol, WPB reporting 
having ended in 1945. (SO 146) 

15th Producers of forty-two carbon and alloy steel 
products authorized to sell on an open-billing 
basis pending increases to reflect $5 per ton 
increase in steel directed by OES. (See Other 
Events this month) 

15th Combed cotton fabrics up for producers. 
(Am. 12, SO 131) 

15th Rayon grey goods incentive pricing plan gives 
10 percent increase for production over as¬ 
signed quotas. (Am. 4, RPS 23) 

20th Southern pine lumber up by OES Directive to 
help meet the housing goal. (Am. 15, 2d 
RMPR 19) 


PRICE—Continued 

25th Pricing of prefabricated homes increased to 
stimulate production. (MPR 606) 

25 th Linoleum up 9 percent, first increases since 
1940. (Order 4875, MPR 188) 

28th Vacuum cleaner retail prices in line with 1942 
prices for several popular makes. (Am. 12, 
RMPR 111) 

During the Month 

Thirteen dollar-and-cent actions including rubber 
flooring, waterproof rubber footwear. 

Fifty-two actions increasing prices including paper- 
board, Southern pulpwood, cotton ginning machin¬ 
ery, crushed ice, fresh spinach. 

Forty-seven comprehensive decontrol actions includ¬ 
ing rare metals, stationery items, and many associated 
articles. 


INFORMATION 

Motion picture “Which Way This Time?” produced 
by OPA for use largely at club and community meet¬ 
ings. Some use in theaters through bookings by OPA 
Information field representatives. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 129.6 


down 

0.3 

from January 


ADMINISTRATION 

15 th Building and Construction Price Division 
created in the Price Department. 

25th Paul A. Porter becomes OPA’s fourth Admin¬ 
istrator. 

28th Gordon Rieley made Director of the new Con¬ 
struction and Building Materials Price Division. 


LITIGATION 

4th Supreme Court holds price ceilings apply to 
sales of commodities by States and their 
agencies. Case v. Bowles and Hulbert & 
Bowles v. Twin Falls County, 327 U. S. 92 
and 103. 


LEGISLATION 

18th Hearings for renewal of the Price Control Act 
after June 30 begun by the House Banking and 
Currency Committee. 


OTHER EVENTS 

4th Tugboat strike in New York City. 

to 

13th 

14th OES directs OPA to increase the price of car¬ 
bon and alloy steel mill products an average 
of $5 per ton after 3-week crisis in OPA-OES- 
OWMR relations. (Directive 96) 

14th New wage price policy (EO 9697) eliminates 
previous requirement of six months’ experience 
of wage increases before prices may be changed. 
The effect of increases to be estimated imme¬ 
diately and projected for 12 months in making 
application for price increases. Wage Stabili¬ 
zation Board also instructed to approve in¬ 
creases based on the pattern of previous in¬ 
dustry settlements. 

15 th Steel strike settled with workers given 18V2 
cents an hour increase. 

15th Harold L. Ickes out as Secretary of the In¬ 
terior, last of original Roosevelt cabinet ap¬ 
pointments. 

23d Chester Bowles becomes Director of the Office 
of Economic Stabilization (OES), succeeding 
Judge Caskie Collett. 

Strikes continuing, General Motors automobile 

strike, General Electric, and Westinghouse. 

About 1,114,000 men discharged from the armed 

services. 




PRICE 

1 st Steel price rises previously directed by OES 
made definite and passed on to fabricators. 
(Am. 15, RPS 56; Am. 38, RPS 49) 

1 st Canned and frozen beans removed from price 
control, first major vegetable decontrolled. 
(Am. 22, SO 132) 

2d Incentive pricing for hardwood flooring, Doug- 

to las fir, Western hemlock, to aid building pro- 

6 th gram. 

4 th All major grain prices up 30 to 40 a bushel to 
reflect rise in parity prices (wheat, corn, oats, 
rye, barley, grain sorghum). 

5th Canning sugar to be distributed by validation 
of stamps for all consumers with no attempt 
made to give extra sugar to those canning ap¬ 
preciable quantities. Spare stamp No. 9 valid 
for 5 pounds March 11 to October 31, 1946. 

7th Rayon MAP up 10 percent retroactive to Octo¬ 
ber 1, 1945. (Am. 6, SO 110) 

8 th Mill ceilings for most cottons raised to reflect 
raw cotton and textile wage increases, with 
differentials for mills paying approved wage in¬ 
creases, extra premiums for making staple work 
clothing fabrics, etc. 

11th Additional increases on passenger cars up to 
4 percent for Chrysler, Ford, Nash, Hudson. 

11th Prices up on most meats for all sales except 

to at retail because of OES approved wage in- 

14 th creases. 

13th Consumer durable manufacturers get liberal¬ 
ized adjustment provision on low-end recon¬ 
version items. (SO 148) 

15th Reduction in weight of loaf of bread permitted 
on recommendation of Famine Emergency 
Committee. (2d RSR 14B) 

15th Manufacturers MAP on felt hats suspended 
retroactive to January 1 because of soaring 
foreign fur prices. 

18th “Rescue program” gives cotton, wool, linen 
manufacturers increases to stimulate output of 
needed fabrics. (SO 149) 


PRICE—Continued 

20th Pricing provisions for new small-volume manu¬ 
facturers of consumer durables tightened. 
(Rev. Order 4332, MPR 188) 

21st Retail prices of trucks made by Dodge, Inter¬ 
national Harvester, Studebaker up from 19 
percent to 42 percent over 1942 prices. 

22d Apparel MAP exemption cut-off raised. (Am. 
4, Spec. Order 3, Am. 4, Spec. Order 5, SO 
108) 

25th Revision of import regulation simplified to 
make most ceiling determinations automatic. 
(RMIPR) 

29th Softwood lumber and Western plywood up at 
to retail, reflecting partial absorption of mill in- 
30 th creases. 

During the Month 

Price control extended to wheat germ. 

Sixteen dollar-and-cent actions including knitwear, 
some pastries. 

Eight roll-backs, all trivial. 

Ninety-seven actions increasing prices including 
West Coast logs, stoves, pig iron, steel, castings, pep¬ 
per, casket shooks, hay. 

One-hundred-eight decontrol actions for several 
hundred items, miscellaneous sporting goods, musical 
instruments, housewares, ribbons, aircraft, and radio 
equipment. 

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

5th House Special (Colmer) Committee on Post¬ 
war Economic Policy and Planning reports on 
use of wartime controls during transition pe¬ 
riod, favoring continuance of price controls, 
but with relaxation of pricing standards. 

14th Senate Small Business Committee reports favor¬ 
ably on continuation of price controls for one 
year, but with changes, including abandonment 
of MAP regulation. 

15th House Special Committee on Food Shortages 
investigates complaints on grain, feed, etc. 


ADMINISTRATION 


11th Gordon E. McCloskey succeeds Douglas J. 
Bennet as Director of Program Planning, In¬ 
formation Department. 

25th Edward F. Phelps succeeds Colin S. Gordon as 
Director of Food Price Division. 


INFORMATION 

25th In the face of widespread demands for a return 
to food rationing to help the famine relief pro¬ 
gram OPA unofficially indicated that a return 
to rationing would be administratively impos¬ 
sible now. 


LITIGATION 

13 th Emergency Court of Appeals holds tenants can¬ 
not protest OPA’s issuance of eviction certifi¬ 
cates enabling landlords to pursue remedies 
under local law; rent control does not give 
tenants a right to possession, since restrictions 
on eviction are only to prevent evasion of rent 
ceilings. Parker v. Porter, 154 F. (2d) 830. 

15 th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains apparel 
MAP regulation. White Trimming Houses, 
Inc. v. Porter, 154 F. (2d) 113. 

29th Emergency Court of Appeals sustains produce 
ceilings for chain stores. Safeway Stores v. 
Porter, 154 F. (2d) 656. 


March 1946 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st Agriculture Department orders “80% extrac¬ 
tion flour” which presently produces “gray 
bread.” 

7th Churchill’s speech at Westminster College, Ful¬ 
ton, Missouri, with President Truman sitting 
beside him on the platform, has sharp words 
for U. S. S. R. 

8 th House passes watered-down version of the Ad¬ 
ministration’s Housing Bill $600 million sub¬ 
sidy, other key provisions out. 

13th General Electric strike settled. 

17 th Herbert Hoover goes to Europe to publicize 
starvation there and elsewhere. 

19th At UNRRA’s Atlantic City meeting, Director 

to General Lehman urges return to food ration- 

20 th ing. 

25 th United Nations Security Council holds first 
meeting at Hunter College in the Bronx. 

26th General Motors automobile strike settled. 

26th CPA prohibits virtually all construction except 
veterans’ housing. 

29th Fiorello La Guardia succeeds Herbert Lehman 
as Director General of UNRRA. 

About 663,000 men discharged from the armed 

services. 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

First quarter 1946 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)- 

War Spending (annual rate)... 

Consumer Spending (annual rate).—.-—. 

Public Debt (end of quarter).-- 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter)- 

_ $153.7 billion.... 

_ $25.7 billion.... 

_ $120.7 billion_ 

Up 2.0 percent. 

Off 39.7 percent. 

Up 6.8 percent. 

Off 0.8 percent. 

Up 3.1 percent. 

Consumer Price Index 1 30.2 --- 

Up 0.6 from February. 



















April 1946 


PRICE 

1st General increase of 10 cents a barrel on crude 

oil. (Am. 23, RMPR 436) 

1st Individual adjustments for manufacturers of 

most consumer goods to be passed on auto¬ 
matically by wholesalers and retailers. Ab¬ 
sorption abandoned except in industry-wide 
actions. (SO 153) 

1st In a move against meat black markets custom 
slaughtering of beef is limited to those who 
operated under Control Order 1 in 1945. 
(Am. 69, RMPR 169) 

15th Uniform margin pricing methods previously 

used for shirts, etc., extended to men’s and 
boys’ tailored clothes, in an attempt to increase 
kw-end production. (MPR 167) 

17th Work clothing manufacturers get 12 to 15 
percent price increases, passed on to consum¬ 
ers. (Am. 12, RMPR 208) 

17 th Citrus fruits up for producers, average retail 
price rise about 1 cent a pound. (Am. 174, 
MPR 426) 

18th Bankhead increase on dyed carded and combed 
cotton yarn—2 bands of prices according to 
wage payments. Method replaces 1942 freeze 
prices. (Am. 39, SR 14E) 

23d Commodity Credit Corporation purchases of 
com and wheat exempted to enable farm re¬ 
lief quotas to be met by payment of 30 cents a 
bushel premium. 


PRICE—Continued 

25th Cigarette manufacturers’ prices up 25 cents 
per thousand with increase passed on by whole¬ 
salers. Retail prices of single packs held, sales 
of more than one pack up J4 cent. (Am. 10, 
SR 14D; Am. 4, RPS 62) 

30th Industry-wide reconversion increases reflecting 
new wage adjustments on household mechani¬ 
cal refrigerators, metal upholstery springs, 
GM and Packard cars. 

During the Month 

One hundred and three actions increasing prices in¬ 
cluding eastern fire clay, bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, 
Appalachian hardwood, photographic equipment, 
pet foods, machine tools, table napery, wool rugs and 
carpets, malleable iron castings, warm-air furnaces, 
cutting tools, linoleum, brass mill products, radio 
tubes, metal cot beds and springs, wood pulp, washing 
machines, gray iron castings. 

Decontrol actions for a large number of articles and 
groups of commodities including many heavy equip¬ 
ment and machinery products, several hundred items 
of personal, household, office, and professional use, 
communications equipment, some salts and chemicals. 


ACCOUNTING 

First industry studies under the new “Wage-Price 
Policy” started. Adjustment cases under SO 133 
(“General Rescue” Order) take an upward swing. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 131.1 


up 

0.9 

from March 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st Fred C. Holder succeeds John S. Clement as 
Director of the Industrial Materials Division 
and the Industrial Manufacturing Division. 

22d Harold V. Webber made Head of Export- 
Import Office, succeeding Charles J. Walsh. 

25th Control Order 2 reimposing slaughter control 
on nonfederally inspected packing plants. 


ENFORCEMENT 

1st Dramatic capture of thieves in the act of 
robbing New York Verification Center. 
Twenty-four-hour vigil by OPA agents in room 
across the street. Bales tossed out the window 
in the middle of the night—over 2,000,000 
sugar stamps worth some $700,000. Men in 
a car below, split-second timing, chase and cap¬ 
ture. Accomplices in the building were three 
guards who were apprehended by fluorescent 
powder which had rubbed off the bales on 
guards’ clothing. 

19th Indictment, prosecution and conviction for 
conspiracy of 31 used car dealers running an 
estimated $3,000,000 black market operation 
in over 5,000 used cars bought from owners 
in Detroit and elsewhere, sold at about $600 
over ceiling in Murray, Ky. and Cairo, Ill. 
“Spotters” used bizarre methods to get cars, 
in one instance even following an owner into 
church, making an offer there. 


INFORMATION 

Motion picture “Ceiling on Your Home” produced 
by OPA for use largely at club and community meet¬ 
ings. Scattered theater bookings. 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st Bituminous coal strike. 

19th The Agriculture Department announces steps 
to speed grain shipments abroad: reduction 
of flour production, reduction of food manu¬ 
facture for domestic consumption, bonus of 30 
cents a bushel on wheat, 50 cents on com under 
certain circumstances. 

25th Conference of Big Four Foreign Ministers at 
Paris. 

About 555,000 men discharged from the armed 

services. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

1st Senate Agriculture Committee renews hear¬ 
ings on acute meat shortages, effects of sub¬ 
sidies and protests against cattle ceilings. 


LEGISLATION 

17th House of Representatives passes a 9-month 
extension of the Price Control Bill with drastic 
amendments. 




PRICE 

6 th Credit clothing retailers get recognition of 
higher cost in 17 percent differential over flat 
ceilings. (Am. 5, 2d RMPR 578) 

10th Farm machinery prices up 10 percent for man¬ 
ufacturers, 5 percent at retail. (Am. 12, MPR 
133; Am. 16, MPR 246) 

13th Substantial increases in all grains under OES 
policy for shipments abroad (see Other 
Events). 

13th Upholstered furniture prices up to reflect Bank- 
head increases on fabric. (Order 4992, MPR 
188) 

15th Hog slaughter quota up after grain price 

increases. 

16th Radios up 8 percent for manufacturers to cover 
recent wage and material increases. Retail rise 
4 to 5 percent. (Order 18, MPR 599) 

18th Further hardship relief authorized for individ¬ 
ual manufacturers of reconversion goods. 
(Order 192, RSO 119) 

20th Small electric appliance manufacturers’ recon¬ 
version ceilings up 9 percent to cover wage and 
material increases, retail prices up 4 to 5 per¬ 
cent. (Am. 2, Order 6, MPR 188) 

22d Most passenger cars up 4 to 10 percent at retail, 
reflecting repricing necessary under modified 
wage-price policy. 

23d Woven decorative fabric prices revised for dis¬ 
tributors, generally maintaining current price 
levels. Converter restrictions tightened to 
check price pyramiding through dummy 
operations. (Am. 12, MPR 39; Am. 46, MPR 
127) 

24th Potatoes temporarily back under price control 
because of the shortage due to the railroad 
strike. 

26th Beef slaughter quotas reduced in nonfederally 
inspected plants. 

31st Low-end shoes up 10 to 15 percent for man¬ 
ufacturers. (SO 162) 

31st Douglas fir and Western hemlock up to stimu¬ 
late production for the housing program. (2d 
RMPR 26) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Roll-back actions on wheat in Atlanta and on lamb 
leather. 

One-hundred-forty-two actions increasing prices, 
including prefabricated dwellings, window shades, as¬ 
phalt shingles and roofing, snuff, boilers and radiators, 
flaxseed, coated fabrics, electric motors, canned milk, 
box springs, citrus fruits, work gloves, laundry soap, 
oil-drilling machinery, business machines, clocks and 
cheap watches, outboard motors, bicycles. 

Decontrol actions on several hundred consumer dur¬ 
able items, machinery parts, many comparatively 
minor food items, some silk products, most fish, some 
industrial tubing, electrical equipment, and machinery. 


ADMINISTRATION 


May 1946 


1st Charles H. Abbott succeeds James S. Scully as 
Head of the Office of Price Board Manage¬ 
ment. 

20th William Auman succeeds Herbert Little as Di¬ 
rector of Editorial Division, Information 
Department. 


LEGISLATION 

10th Senate Banking and Currency Committee com¬ 
pletes hearings on renewal of Price Control 
BUI. 

23d President Truman sends a letter to Senator 
Wagner expressing dissatisfaction with the 
House OPA BUI. Flood of public maU on 
same theme brings sharp congressional attacks 
on OPA Information Department. 


OTHER EVENTS 

8 th Joint OES, USD A, OPA, grain policy an¬ 
nounced for encouraging shipment abroad and 
balancing domestic distribution. 

10th Senate approves loan to Great Britain. 

10th Herbert Hoover back in San Francisco after 
world-wide food survey. 

23d RaUroad strike settled abruptly at the White 
to House. RaUroad union heads criticize Presi- 
25th dent’s speech before Congress. 

29th Coal strike continues until May 29, but the 
miners work from May 14 to May 22. 

About 373,000 men discharged from the armed 
services. 


LITIGATION 

27th Supreme Court settles finally the authority of 
federal courts to enjoin state court eviction 
proceedings in rent control cases. Porter v. 
Lee, and Porter v. Dicken, 66 S. Ct. 1094, 
1096. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 131.7 

up 

0.6 

from April 




June 1946 


PRICE 

1st Milk up to If! a quart under OES directive. 

to (SO 163, SO 164, Am. 21, MPR 329) 

7th 

3d Cost-plus prices for new small manufacturers 
of luggage, furniture, lamps, etc., revoked. 
Replaced by in-line pricing technique because 
of improved production and high prices previ¬ 
ously obtained. (Am. 1, Rev. Order 4332, 
MPR 188) 

4th Copper, lead, brass given general increases re¬ 
flecting wage increase. 

11th Wire, nails, and wire products up, completing 
OES program on steel products. (Am. 17, 
RPS 6) 

12th Bread up 10 a loaf. (Am. 5, RSR 14B) 

13 th Restaurants to use percentage mark-up over 
raw food costs for new dishes and exempt foods. 
(Am. 13, Rest. MPR 2) 

14th Shredded wheat, puffed rice, and other dry 
cereals up 10 to 40 per package at retail. (Am. 
1, SR 11, FPR 1) 

15th Specific mark-ups for certain fruits and vege¬ 
tables decrease prices somewhat. 


PRICE—Continued 

17th Butter, cheese, canned milk up under OES 
dairy program, to offset rising feed cost. 

17 th Ceilings for the first time on dairy product 
manufacturers’ purchases of milk and cream. 
(Am. 7, RMPR 330) 

18th Tire and tube prices up 3 to 4 percent. 

24th Iron ore up 500 a ton because of wage raises. 
(Am. 3, RMPR 113) 

24th Sugar up 100 per cwt. at the refinery, increase 
to be passed on. (Am. 3, MPR 60) 

24th 1946 pack of canned fruits and vegetables to be 
priced on the same basis as the 1945 with al¬ 
lowances for higher wage rates and sugar 
increases. 

26th Potatoes off price control until August 28 after 
brief restoration of price control. (Am. 38, 
SO 132) 

28th Soft coal prices up about 400 a ton, anthracite 
an average of 910 a ton to pay increased cost 
resulting from 1946 strike settlement, OES 
approved. 

28th Coke prices up $ 1.35 a ton because of increased 
coal and labor costs. (Am. 5, MPR 29) 

28th Green coffee import prices up about 20 a 
pound by OES Directive. Shipments had 
nearly ceased. (Am. 15, RPS 50) 


THE BASIC ARITHMETIC 

Second quarter 1946 

Relation to previous 
quarter 

National Income (annual rate)- 

War Spending (annual rate)--- 

Consumer Spending (annual rate)—-- 

Public Debt (end of quarter)- 

Civilian Employment (end of quarter)- 

$158.0 billion—. 
$19.0 billion.— 
$119.5 billion.— 
$269.9 billion.... 
56.7 million... 

Up 2.8 percent. 

Off 26.1 percent. 

Off 1.0 percent. 

Off 2.4 percent. 

Up 7.0 percent. 



Up 1.6 from May. 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

Extension of price control to rye at all levels. 

One hundred and fifty-three actions increasing 
prices, including printing presses and equipment, rub¬ 
ber heels, stoves, apples, aluminumware, radio cabi¬ 
nets, chinaware, nylon hosiery, paper for magazines, 
vacuum cleaners, dry batteries, Western pine, salmon, 
beer to take out. 

Decontrol actions on miscellaneous building mate¬ 
rials such as fire clay, minor metals, some frozen and 
processed foods, assorted items of minor importance, 
such as tents and tarpaulins, Boy Scout uniforms. 


ADMINISTRATION 

1st James L. Meader succeeds Leo F. Gentner as 
Regional Administrator in New York. 

1st Arthur S. Brodhead succeeds Richard Y. Bat- 
terton as Regional Administrator in Denver. 

3d Richard B. Heflebower made Economic Ad¬ 
viser to the Price Department. 

16th Ethel B. Gilbert succeeds Robert R. R. Brooks 
as Deputy Administrator for Information. 

17th David London succeeds Milton Klein as Direc¬ 
tor of Litigation Division, Enforcement 
Department. 

17th Jonathan B. Richards succeeds David Cavers 
as Associate General Counsel for Price. 

21st Frank Judd succeeds Rexford C. Parmelee as 
Director of Financial Reporting Division, Ac¬ 
counting Department. 


ENFORCEMENT 

Treble-damage suits for $9,000,000 filed against 40 
lumber operators involving over 67,000,000 board-feet 
of lumber. 

10th Supreme Court sustains enforcement action 
against produce dealers for the tie-in sales. 
United States v. George F. Fish, Inc., 154 F. 
(2d) 798, cert. den. 66 S. Ct. 1377. 


OTHER EVENTS 

11th President Truman vetoes the Case Bill growing 
out of postwar strikes. 

14th John R. Steelman appointed Director of the 
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. 
(OWMR) 

15th Maritime strike avoided at the last minute by 
acceptance of Government proposal. 

18th Violence in Palestine. 

28th Chester Bowles announces his resignation as 
Director of OES. 

30th President Truman issues Executive Order 9745 
which maintains the existence of OP A until a 
new price control law is passed. 

LEGISLATION 

5th Senate Banking and Currency Committee re¬ 
ports its version of the OPA extension bill. 

10th Floor debate in Senate. 

13th Passage in Senate. 

25th Conference report approved by the House. 

28th Conference report approved by the Senate. 

29th President vetoes OPA bill with message criticiz¬ 
ing Taft Amendment which requires ceilings to 
cover costs plus profit on every manufactured 
product considered separately. 

29th House upholds the veto. 


LITIGATION 

3d Supreme Court upholds OPA’s right in en¬ 
forcement suit to compel landlord to make 
restitution of overcharges to tenant. Porter v. 
Warner Holding Co., 66 S. Ct. 1086. 

5th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals holds that the 
cessation of hostilities does not automatically 
stop the enforcement of price controls. 
Porter v. Granite State Packing Co., 155 F. 
(2d) 786. 
























PRICE 


RENT 


1 st No price actions issued because price control 

to legislation lapsed on June 30. Previous ceil- 

25th ings automatically suspended. 

1st Another sugar stamp good for 5 pounds of 
canning sugar. 

26th One hundred fourty-two price orders issued on 
the first day of OPA’s renewed existence. 
These orders increased prices and decontrolled 
items. 

26th Builders’ hardware up 10 to 50 percent to help 
the housing program, with heaviest increases 
on the low-end goods. 

26th Shirts, shorts, pajamas up 11 percent, work 

to gloves up 1 to 60 a pair. 

29th 

26th Ceilings for services and commodities under 
cost-plus pricing must be based on pre-June 
30 costs for nonfood items as required by the 
new Act. (SO 171) 

27th Pig iron up $2 a ton. (Am. 13, RPS 10) 

28th Processed snap beans suspended from price 
control, in preference to new ceilings required 
by the termination of subsidies. (Am. 44, SO 
132) 


INFORMATION 

26th Seventy-nine press releases issued—largest 
single day’s output. 


-5th All rent control restored on June 30th basis. 
However, landlords need not refund any over¬ 
ceiling rents actually paid during the interim. 


LEGISLATION 

1st House passes a resolution continuing OP A 
without change for 20 days. 

12th Senate also passes a continuing resolution 
which is in effect a new bill removing from 
price control meat, poultry, dairy products, 
petroleum, tobacco, and setting up a Decontrol 
Board over OPA. 

23d House approves conference report. 

24th Senate approves conference report. 

25th President signs the revised OPA bill extending 
the agency to June 30, 1947, with ceilings on 
rents and most commodities but exempting 
meat, poultry, grains, dairy products, petro¬ 
leum, and tobacco from price control. The 
Act creates a Decontrol Board to be appointed 
by the President with final jurisdiction over de¬ 
control or recontrol of most products but with 
authority over food ceilings divided among the 
Board, USD A and OPA. The Act establishes 
1940 prices plus cost increases since, as the 
basis for ceilings on manufactured goods, pro¬ 
hibits further distributor cost absorption as 
of March 1946, prohibited use of maximum 
average price formula (MAP), prohibits 
ceilings on raw cotton and other commodities 
not controlled on April 1, limits further use of 
subsidies. 


ADMINISTRATION 


1st President Truman issues Executive Order 9745 
calling on OPA employees to stay on the job, 
and directing continuance of rationing, en¬ 
forcement, investigation, and other functions 
not terminated by expiration of price-control 
law. 

1st OPA employees continue coming to work 

to throughout the country despite the lapse of 

25th price control authority. 

8 th Zenas Potter resigns as Congressional Adviser 
to the Administrator. 

18th Eugene Messner made Director of Consumer 
Goods Price Division, succeeding Samuel 
Levitties. 

21st Charles Coltman succeeds John T. O’Brien 
as Director of Field Division, Information 
Department. 

23d $76,000,000 appropriated for OPA during the 

lapse. 

27th Earl W. Clark succeeds Rae E. Walters as 
Regional Administrator in Chicago. 

29th C. Dean McNeal succeeds Edward F. Phelps 
as Director of Food Price Division. 


LITIGATION 

8 th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals holds co¬ 
operative of retail butchers formed by whole¬ 
sale slaughterers an evasion of price controls, 
designed to permit retailers to pay over-ceiling 
prices for meat. Porter v. Villari, 156 F. (2d) 
690. 

18th, Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals upholds 
19th, retroactive pricing orders applicable to sales 
22 d of new goods in violation of price regulations 
requiring prior OPA approval. Martini v. 
Porter; Porter v. Kramer; Porter v. Sendero- 
witz, 157 F. (2d) 35, 156 F. (2d) 687, — F. 
(2d) -. 

Courts generally keep status quo in tenant eviction 
cases brought by landlords during lapse of rent 
controls. 


July 1946 


OTHER EVENTS 

15th Movement of prices without price control. 
BLS consumer price index shows jump from 
133.3 on June 15 to 141.2 on July 15, an 
increase of 7.9; more than the index had in¬ 
creased during the previous 24 months under 
price control. 

27 th President Truman appoints to the Decontrol 
Board Roy L. Thompson, president, Federal 
Land Bank of New Orleans, as Chairman; 
George H. Mead of the Mead Corporation, 
pulp and paper manufacturers of Dayton, 
Ohio; Daniel W. Bell, Washington banker and 
former Under Secretary of the Treasury. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 141.2 

up 

7.9 

from June 




August 1946 


PRICE 

1st Silver up to 90.50 an ounce to conform with 
prices authorized by Congress for sales of 
Treasury silver. (Am. 2, RMPR 198) 

1st Com products up about 20 a pound. (Am. 
19, SR 14C) 

1st 5% increase for hardwood flooring at the re¬ 
quest of the Housing Expediter. 

2d Flour and bread up to offset subsidy removal 
and higher cost of grain now uncontrolled, to 
stimulate movement of supplies. 

2d Most breakfast cereals up 1 to 30 a package at 
retail. (Am. 2, Supp. 11, FPR 1) 

5th Increases for basic cotton textiles will raise re¬ 
tail prices of cotton clothing an estimated 
6 to 8 percent, will raise piece goods and house¬ 
hold linens an estimated 17 percent. (Am. 
30, SO 131) 

7th Canned corn, peas, tomatoes up 1 to 20 a can 
for consumers as subsidies are eliminated. 

12th Automobile prices up again an average of 7.3 
percent as prewar dealer mark-ups are restored 
in accordance with the renewed Price Control 
Act. 

14th Green coffee up again, another 6.30 per pound 
as 30 subsidy ends. (Am. 16, RPS 50) 

15 th Dyed cotton yam up 12 *4 percent for combed, 
16 percent for carded to reflect cotton costs re¬ 
quired by the new Act. 


PRICE—Continued 

19th Retail prices on many consumer goods lifted 
above June 30 ceilings to conform with limita¬ 
tions on dealer-cost absorption as provided in 
the Act—such things as bicycles, aluminum- 
ware, other metalware, small appliances. 

22d Newsprint up $7.00 a ton to encourage supply. 
(Am. 13, RMPR 130) 

23d Another increase on the price of wire nails 
badly needed by the housing program. 

During the Month 

Many actions increasing prices including hand tools, 
dry edible beans, schoolroom furniture, beer at bars 
and restaurants, tubs, pails, and buckets, truck trailers, 
cast-iron soil pipe, household mechanical refrigerators. 

Decontrol actions for a large number of miscellane¬ 
ous articles including in one group such slightly out¬ 
landish items as imported babas au rhum, evaporated 
goats’ milk, and dried canned octopus meat. 


ENFORCEMENT 

21st In Sioux City, Iowa, eight men indicted on 
conspiracy for diverting badly needed corn to 
manufacture of sirup for confectionery trades 
through over-ceiling payments to farmers. 

27 th OP A receives delegation of authority from 
Housing Expediter to enforce the maximum 
sales price and veterans’ preference require¬ 
ments of Veterans’ Emergency Housing 
Program. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 144.1 


up 

2.9 

from July 


ADMINISTRATION 

6 th Carl A. Auerbach succeeds Jacob D. Hyman as 
Assistant General Counsel for Court Review. 

8 th OPA appropriation increased by $26,000,000. 

9th OPA sets up a Decontrol Division in the Price 
Department. 

12th Thomas J. Kinsella succeeds Allen Coe as Head 
of War Goods Price Office. 

12th Allen Coe succeeds Gordon Rieley as Director 
of Construction and Building Materials Price 
Division. 

12th Sidney S. Feinberg succeeds Joseph Forer as 
Director of Apparel and Industrial Materials 
Division, Enforcement Department. 

23d R. A. Nixon made Director of the combined 
Fuel and Transportation Division. 

23d J. H. Reppert made Associate Director of the 
combined Fuel and Transportation Division. 

23d Announcement of steps to be taken by an in¬ 
dustry in seeking decontrol. (PR17) 

26th Roderick M. Gillies succeeds Charles A. Mar- 
quardt as Executive Officer in the Price 
Department. 


OTHER EVENTS 

1 st Standard Oil Company of New Jersey raises 
decontrolled gasoline 10 a gallon. 

2d Seventy-ninth Congress goes home. 

11th Mitchell County Fair, Osage, Iowa, cancels 
greased-pig contest because of price uncertainty 
in the pig market. 

12th Decontrol Board begins four-day hearings on 
retention or abandonment of price control for 
meat, poultry, grains, dairy products. 

20th Decontrol Board restores price control on meat, 
cotton seed, soybeans; leaves grains, dairy prod¬ 
ucts, poultry free of control. 

The Agriculture Department indicates 1946-47 
wheat crop at 1.2 billion bushels, com at 3.5 billion 
bushels, oats at 1.5 billion bushels—all near-record 
highs with no indication of shortages. 

Growing discord at the Paris Conference between 
the U. S. S. R. and the Western Powers. 

LITIGATION 

13th Emergency Court of Appeals upholds OPA’s 
power to prohibit importation of green coffee 
purchased abroad at over-ceiling prices. Great 
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Porter, 156 F. 
(2d) 812. 

14th Emergency Court of Appeals approves OPA 
roll-back order setting a new brand beer price 
back to brewer’s base period price for a similar 
brand, although the old brand had been dis¬ 
continued; and holding OPA may urge new 
reasons in justification of the validity of a regu¬ 
lation when it is attacked, not set forth in the 
statement of considerations when it was issued. 
Ebling Brewing Co. v. Porter, 156 F. (2d) 
1012. 

23d Emergency Court of Appeals reaffirms validity 
of rent regulations for New York City apart¬ 
ments after OPA rehearings of earlier case, 
based on full year’s operating returns in 1944; 
attacks on OPA interpretation of standards for 
determining “generally fair and equitable ’ ceil¬ 
ings rejected. 315 West 97th St. Realty Co. 
v. Porter, 156 F. (2d) 982, 995. 




PRICE 


PRICE—Continued 


3 d Shoes of kid and goat leather up about 10 per¬ 
cent. (Am. 3, SO 162) 

4th Twenty-one more construction and industrial 
materials decontrolled, affecting an annual 
production estimated at $110,000,000. (Am 

4, SO 129) 

5th Lipstick, face powder, face cream, toothpaste, 
etc., selling at less than 25 cents per item, off 
price control. (Am. 51, SO 129) 

5th Wood pulp up about 10 percent without 
change in paper prices. (Am. 6, RMPR 114) 

10th Price controls put back on meat, from stock 
yards to retail stores—at prices estimated to 
increase the Nation’s annual food bill about 
$600,000,000. Live animal prices based on 
“recommendations” of the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture which have mandatory effect under 
the law—beef cattle at Chicago $20.25 instead 
of $18 in June. 

11th Work gloves up 3 cents to 15 cents a pair. 
(Am. 5, RMPR 506) 

12th Low-priced cotton knit underwear and night¬ 
wear up about 15 percent to reflect higher cost 
of cotton yam. (Am. 5, SO 139) 

13th Sugar up 2 cents a pound in accordance with 
Cuban sugar agreement negotiated by Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. Price is tied to cost of 
living in United States. 

16th Restaurant prices for meat dishes rolled back 
to June 30, 1946 prices. 

16th Ford prices up again on hardship basis. In¬ 
creases range from $60 to $125 per car. 

17th Two percent increase in cotton textiles to re¬ 
flect 5-cent an hour increase allowed by Wage 
Stabilization Board. (Am. 33, SO 131) 

20th Ten percent increase on washable service ap¬ 
parel. (Am. 56, SR 14E) 

27th OPA authorizes increases on meat dishes in 
restaurants, based on percentage rise in raw 
material costs. 

27th Prices for Kaiser cars—$1,645, Frazer cars 
$1,795. 


During the Month 

The following items were decontrolled: 

Wheat and rice starches and sirups; jobbing shop 
operations like cutting, grinding, etc.; motorcycles, 
heavy trucks; plastic furniture, television sets, electric 
blankets; collapsible tubes, many types of industrial 
and electrical machinery and equipment, construction 
machinery, food processing machinery, poultry farm 
equipment. 


ADMINISTRATION 

9th Richard Frank succeeds Herman A. Green¬ 
berg as Director of Food Enforcement Division. 

13th Max McCullough succeeds James G. Rogers, 
Jr., as General Deputy Administrator. Rogers 
resigns. 

23d John M. Bulkley made Director of the new 
Decontrol Division in the Price Department. 

23d Everett W. Reimer succeeds Wallace S. Sayre 
as Personnel Director. 


ENFORCEMENT 

26th Suits in ten West Coast cities against 35 lum¬ 
ber companies and 18 building materials con¬ 
cerns for $722,000 treble damages on sales of 
some 28,000,000 board feet of lumber and 
other building materials. Violations include 
upgrading, false invoices, short lengths, forced 
purchase of unwanted materials. 

Arrest of 70 persons in Los Angeles for black market 
automobile transactions. Release of picture showing 
OPA investigator using blackjack causes Nation-wide 
press comment. 


RENT 


20th Veterans who buy houses are given reduced 
waiting time before occupancy. 


LITIGATION 

11th Emergency Court of Appeals sets aside ceilings 
on vitamin natural oils, as based on arbitrary 
classifications. Halibut Producers Cooperative 
v. Porter, 157 F. (2d) 332. 

12th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals upholds in¬ 
junction against cooperative of retail butchers 
who bought “stock” and paid “assessments” to 
get meat, as a tying agreement. Bowles v. 
Federated Meat Corporation, 157 F. (2d) 
276. 


September 1946 


OTHER EVENTS 

1st Stocks fall 1 to 17 points on New York Stock 
Exchange—U. S. Steel off 6, duPont off 17. 

1st Maritime strike of unlicensed seamen ties up 

to all American shipping. 

21 st 

6 th Secretary of State James F. Byrnes makes im¬ 
portant declaration of American foreign policy 
in a speech in Stuttgart, Germany. 

10th Meat starts to disappear from trade channels 
as controls are put back, stockyard offerings 
drop sharply. 

12th Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace, in 
a speech at Madison Square Garden criticizes 
Administration policy toward U. S. S. R. 

18th Decontrol Board says no price control for 

to dairy products. 

20 th 

20th Secretary Wallace resigns at Mr. Truman’s 
request. 

26th Restaurant Industry Advisory Committee asks 
removal of ceilings on restaurant prices. 

29th No meat—it’s becoming a political issue. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 145.9 

up 

1.8 

from August 







October 1946 


PRICE 

1 st Third monthly revision of cotton textile prices 
to reflect raw cotton costs boosts prices of 
fabrics and yarns about 2 percent. (Am. 34, 
SO 131) 

15th Livestock, meat, food, and feed products from 
meat decontrolled in accordance with the 
President’s radio speech of October 14. 

16th Fats and oils decontrolled—margarine, shorten¬ 
ing, salad dressing, cottonseed, corn, peanut 
and soybean oil. 

17th Coffee decontrolled—the first such action taken 
in granting petition of an OPA Industry Ad¬ 
visory Committee. (Am. 65, SO 132) 

18th Jams, jellies, preserves, apple butter prices up— 
roughly 2^ a pound jar—annual increase to 
consumers estimated at $6,000,000. (Supp. 
1, FPR 1) 

24th All food products except sugar, sirups, and rice 
removed from price control. (Am. 68, 72, 
SO 132) 

24th Decontrol of all cosmetics not previously ex¬ 
empt from control. 

30th Decontrol of radios, lamps, small electrical ap¬ 
pliances, kitchenware, and glassware. 

31st Decontrol of hides, skins, leather, and shoes at 
direction of OWMR Director Steelman. 
(Am. 7, SO 126) 


PRICE—Continued 

During the Month 

The following items were decontrolled: 

Brooms and broom com, custom service on shoes, 
luggage etc., metallic cloth lame, harness and saddlery, 
stepladders, outboard motors, incandescent mantles, 
oil hurricane lamps, hand-operated washing machines 
and many other products. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 148.4 


up 

2.5 

from September 


ADMINISTRATION 


OTHER EVENTS 


31st 


Announcement of closing of the 1,642 remain¬ 
ing Local Boards on November 4, an action 
which reduces OPA staff by about 10,000 per¬ 
sons—from 35,000 to 25,000. 


1st The meat shortage, the number one topic of 

to conversation throughout the country. 

14th 

14th President Truman says NO meat controls. 

16th Hanging (or suicide) for Nazi criminals. 

16th Much livestock to market—cattle prices at 

to Chicago jump from $20 to $27 per cwt. 

19th 

19th Cotton futures prices break on cotton exchange, 

dropping from 40^ a pound to 30^ a pound in 
a week or two, precipitated by liquidation of 
large speculator in New Orleans. Exchanges 
close on 19th, 26th, 30th. Representative 
Sparkman (Ala.) asks cotton textiles ceilings be 
maintained. Senator George (Ga.) urges tex¬ 
tile and apparel decontrol. 

24th John L. Lewis asks Government to renegotiate 
contract with miners—threatens strike. 


CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS 

2d House Interstate Commerce (Boren) Sub¬ 
committee on Newsprint holds hearings on 
newsprint shortages and decontrol demands. 




PRICE 


RENT 


1st Decontrol of some farm dairy machinery and 
equipment, several other machinery items and 
electrical equipment items, a number of lumber, 
paper, metal and chemical products, and school 
and passenger-bus bodies and equipment parts, 
alloy steel and tubing, iron ore, silver, radio 
parts and compounded medical prescriptions, 
approximately 10 percent, by dollar volume, of 
all clothing; several dozen apparel items not 
basic in an ordinary wardrobe. 

6 th Decontrol of household vacuum cleaners and 
attachments, feathers and down, feather-filled 
pillows, domestic ironing machines, domestic 
clothes dryers. 

10th Price control removed from all commodities 
and services except sugar, rice, sirups as 
directed by the President. (SO 193) 


1st Eighty-eight new rental areas brought under 
control—including 23 college towns such as 
Waterville, Maine, and Harrisonburg, Va., and 
other varied communities throughout the 
nation. 


ADMINISTRATION 

14th One hundred eighty-three-page document of 
instructions for closing field offices sent out from 
Washington. Official closing of District Of¬ 
fices, December 1, 1946. Physical closing on 
January 31, 1947. 

22d First of a series of dismissal notices issued, de¬ 
signed to cut National, Regional, and District 
Office staffs by about 9,000, bringing total 
number of employees down to about 16,000 
by January 1, 1947. (Number of employees 
October 25: 35,000.) 

30th Paul A. Porter resigns as Administrator, res¬ 
ignation effective December 12. 


November 1946 


OTHER EVENTS 

5 th Republicans win control of both House and 
Senate in national elections. 

9th President Truman announces end of price con¬ 
trol on everything but sugar, rice, and rent. 

9th President Truman issues Executive Order 9801, 
ending wage and salary controls. 

11th General Motors announces price increase of 
$100 per car. 

18th Federal Court of the District of Columbia is¬ 
sues temporary restraining order requiring 
John L. Lewis to withdraw strike order. Many 
miners stay home in anticipation of strike. 

21st Coal strike begins, threatening Nation-wide 
stagnation of industry. 

25th John L. Lewis appears in Federal District 
Court of D. C. to face contempt citation. 
Court action resulting in a fine of $3,500,000 
against the union, $10,000 for Lewis individ¬ 
ually, ending the coal strike—fines to be re¬ 
viewed by Supreme Court. 


CONSUMER PRICE INDEX 150.7 


up 

2.3 

from October 




ABBREVIATIONS 


Adm. Notice 

Administrative Notice 

Am. . 


Amendment 

AO . 


Administrative Order 

BEW . 


Board of Economic Warfare 

BLS . 


Board of Labor Statistics 

CAS . 


Central Administrative Services 

CCC . 


Commodity Credit Corporation 

CMP . 


Controlled Materials Plan 

CPA . 


Chilian Production Administration 

DSC . 


Defense Supplies Corporation 

EO . 


Executive Order 

FEA . 


Foreign Economic Administration 

FPR . 


Food Products Regulation 

GMPR 


General Maximum Price Regulation 

GO . 


General Order 

GRO . 


General Ration Order 

ICC . 


Interstate Commerce Commission 

MAP . 


Maximum Average Price 

MEPR 


Maximum Export Price Regulation 

MIPR 


Maximum Import Price Regulation 

MPR . 


Maximum Price Regulation 

NDAC 


National Defense Advisory Commis¬ 
sion 

NHA . 


National Housing Agency 

NLRB 


National Labor Relations Board 

ODT . 


Office of Defense Transportation 

OEM . 


Office for Emergency Management 

OES . 


Office of Economic Stabilization 

OESR 


Office of Economic Stabilization and 
Reconversion 

OEW . 


Office of Economic Warfare 

OLLA 


Office of Lend-Lease Administration 

OPA . 


Office of Price Administration 

OPACS 


Office of Price Administration and 
Civilian Supply 

OPM . 

m m 

Office of Production Management 

OSS . 

# # 

Office of Strategic Services 


OWI . . . 

Office of War Information 

OWM . . 

Office of War Mobilization 

OWMR. . 

Office of War Mobilization and Re¬ 
conversion 

PAW . . . 

Petroleum Administration for War 

PR . . . 

Procedural Regulation 

PS ... . 

Price Schedule 

Rest. MPR . 

Restaurant Maximum Price Regula¬ 
tion 

RFC . . . 

Reconstruction Finance Corporation 

RMPR . . 

Revised Maximum Price Regulation 

2d RMPR . 

Second Revised Maximum Price Reg¬ 
ulation 

3d RMPR . 

Third Revised Maximum Price Regu¬ 
lation 

RPS . . . 

Revised Price Schedule 

RSR . . . 

Revised Supplementary Regulation 

SHAEF . . 

Supreme Headquarters, Allied Ex¬ 
peditionary Forces 

SO . . . 

Supplementary Order 

SPAB . . . 

Supply, Priorities, and Allocation 
Board 

SR . . . 

Supplementary Regulation 

SSR . . . 

Supplementary Service Regulation 

Supp.—FPR 

Supplement—Food Products Regula¬ 
tion 

TMPR . . 

Temporary Maximum Price Regula¬ 
tion 

UNRRA . . 

United Nations Relief and Rehabilita¬ 
tion Administration 

USD A . . 

United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture 

WFA . . . 

War Food Administration 

WLB . . . 

War Labor Board 

WMC . . 

War Manpower Commission 

WPB . . . 

War Production Board 

WSA . . . 

War Shipping Administration 

WSB . . . 

Wage Stabilization Board 


INDEX 


A 


Abbott, Charles H., May 1946 
Accountants, May 1942, Apr. 1943 
Accounting Department: 

Deputy Administrator, Jan. 1945 
Consumer Products Division, Jan. 1945 
Field Division, Jan. 1945 
Financial Reporting Division, Jan. 

1945, June 1946 
Industrial Division, Jan. 1945 
Service and Audits Division, Jan. 1945 
Accounting Division, May 1942, June 
1943, Sept. 1943 

Accounting Policy Memoranda, Mar. 
1942, Apr. 1942, June 1942, Oct. 

1942, Apr. 1943, June 1943 
Accounting studies, Feb. 1941, Apr. 1941 
Adhesives, June 1944 

Adjustable pricing, cotton textiles, June 
1945, Aug. 1945, Sept. 1945 
Adjustments, individual: 

Bakers, May 1944 
Consumer goods, Apr. 1946 
Adjustments, rent, Oct. 1944 
Administrative Management Department, 
Nov. 1942, Sept. 1943, Dec. 1943, 
Jan. 1945 

Administrative Services, June 1942, Mar. 

1943, May 1944, Jan. 1945, Mar. 
1945, Oct. 1945 

Administrator, OPA, Feb. 1942, Jan. 

1943, Nov. 1943, Feb. 1946 
Afghanistan camel hair, May 1943 
Agricultural Adviser, Nov. 1943, May 

1944, Dec. 1945 

Agricultural commodities, litigation, Aug. 
1945 

Agriculture Committees. (See Congres¬ 
sional Committees.) 

Agriculture, Department of, Dec. 1942, 
Apr. 1946, Sept. 1946 
Ailes, Stephen, Aug. 1943 
Air shipments, July 1945 
Aircraft, Aug. 1945, Mar. 1946 
Alarm clocks, May 1943 
Alaska, May 1942, July 1942 
Alcohol, industrial, Nov. 1943 
Alcohol purchases, audits, Jan. 1943 
Alfalfa, Feb. 1944, June 1944 
Allied Cement and Chemical Co. case, 
enforcement, Dec. 1945 
Alloy steel products, Feb. 1946 


Aluminum, Aug. 1945 
Aluminum scrap, Mar. 1941, Dec. 1943, 
Jan. 1945 

Aluminumware, June 1946, Aug. 1946 
Ammunition, civilian, Oct. 1944 
Anchovies, imported, Oct. 1945 
Anderson, Clinton P., May 1945 
Anthracite coal, Apr. 1942, Apr. 1945, 
June 1946 

Anti-freeze, Aug. 1943, Feb. 1945 
Antiques, repair, Nov. 1944 
Anzio, Jan. 1944 
Apparel. (See Clothing.) 

Apparel MAP. (See Maximum Average 
Price.) 

Apple butter, Oct. 1946 

Apples, Sept. 1943, Nov. 1943, Aug. 

1944, July 1945, June 1946 
Appliances, small, Dec. 1945, May 1946, 

Aug. 1946, Oct. 1946 
Appropriation, July 1942, July 1943, 
Mar. 1944, June 1944, July 1944, 
July 1945, July 1946 
Apricots, fresh, June 1944 
Area pricing, building materials, Sept. 
1945 

Army strength, Oct. 1942 
Artillery shells, June 1945 
Athern, Leigh, Sept. 1943, June 1944 
Atom bomb, Aug. 1945, Nov. 1945 
Attlee, Clement, July 1945 
Attu, May 1943 
Auerbach, Carl A., Aug. 1946 
Auman, William, May 1946 
Automatic pricing, small manufacturers, 
Sept. 1945 

Automobile black market, Apr. 1946, 
Sept. 1946 

Automobile repair. Sept. 1945, Oct. 1945 
Automobiles, Jan. 1942, May 1942: 
Prices, new, Aug. 1945, Nov. 1945, 
Jan. 1946, Mar. 1946, Apr. 1946, 
May 1946, Aug. 1946, Sept. 1946 
Prices, used, July 1944, Jan. 1945, May 

1945, Aug. 1945 

Rationing, Feb. 1942, June 1945, July 
1945, Oct. 1945 

Automotive parts, Nov. 1943, Apr. 1944 


B 


Babas au rhum, Aug. 1946 
Bachman, Kenneth, Jan. 1942, Mar. 1944 
Baird, Charles R., July 1944, Oct. 1945 
Baker, Geoffrey, Nov. 1944, Aug. 1945, 
Sept. 1945, Jan. 1946 
Bakers, individual adjustments, May 1944 
Bananas, Jan. 1943, Apr. 1944, Dec. 1944 


Bankhead Amendment, June 1944: 
Accounting, Sept. 1944 
Price increases, Sept. 1944, Dec. 1944 
Feb. 1945, Sept. 1945, Oct. 1945 ' 
Jan. 1946 

Barley, Dec. 1943, Aug. 1944, Mar. 1946 
Barrels, slack, Aug. 1945 
Barrows, Leland, Oct. 1945, Oct. 1946 
Bars, steel, Aug. 1945 
Baruch, Bernard M., Aug. 1942, Oct 
1943 

Base-period prices, litigation, June 1945 
Bataan, Apr. 1942 

Batteries, dry, Dec. 1941, Dec. 1944, Feb. 

1945, July 1945, June 1946 
Batterton, Richard Y., Feb. 1944, June 
1946 

Battle of the Bulge, Dec. 1944, Jan. 1945 
Beans: 

Dry edible, Nov. 1942, July 1944, 
Aug. 1946 

Processed, Sept. 1944, Mar. 1946, July 
1946 

Snap, Feb. 1943, Sept. 1944, Oct. 1944, 
Jan. 1945 

Bed linens, Feb. 1944, Aug. 1944 
Beds: 

Dog and cat, Feb. 1945 
Metal, Jan. 1946, Apr. 1946 
Studio, Apr. 1944 
Bedspreads, Oct. 1945 
Bedsprings, Sept. 1942 
Bee keepers, Sept. 1943 
Beef (See also Meat) : 

Price, July 1942, Apr. 1943, May 1944, 
Apr. 1946 

Rationing, Mar. 1944, Sept. 1945 
Slaughter, May 1946 
Beer, Nov. 1942, Dec. 1943, Dec. 1944, 
June 1946, Aug. 1946 
Beets, fresh, Aug. 1944 
Bell, Daniel W., July 1946 
Bengasi, Jan. 1942 

Bennet, Douglas J., Mar. 1944, Mar. 
1946 

Benson, George C. S., Mar. 1942, June 
1942, Mar. 1943 
Berlin, Apr. 1945 

Berries, July 1942, Aug. 1942, July 1943, 
July 1945 
Bicycles: 

Price, Ded. 1944, May 1946, Aug. 1946 
Rationing, May 1942, Sept. 1944 
“Big Inch” pipeline, Feb. 1943, July 1943 
Bismarck Sea, Mar. 1943 
Bituminous coal (See coal) 

Black market: 

Automobiles, Apr. 1946, Sept. 1946 

Corn, Aug. 1946 

Lumber, June 1946, Sept. 1946 






Meat, May 1945, Jan. 1946 
Poultry, Apr. 1943 
Ration currency, May 1944 
Textiles, Jan. 1945, Dec. 1945 
Black, Martin L., May 1942 
Blankets, Jan. 1945, Sept. 1946 
Board, Combined: 

Food, June 1942 

Production and Resources, June 1942 
Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) July 
1943 

Boards, OPA Local, Dec. 1941, Jan. 1942, 
May 1942, Sept. 1942, May 1943, 
Nov. 1944, Mar. 1945, Oct. 1945, 
May 1946: 

Closings, Oct. 1945, Nov. 1945, Dec. 
1945, Jan. 1946, Oct. 1946 
Boards, truck-tire, July 1943, July 1944 
Bobbins, Nov. 1943, Oct. 1944, June 1945 
Boilers, May 1946 
Bolts, May 1942, Apr. 1946 
Bombs, aerosal insecticide, Sept. 1945 
Bombs, V-l, June 1944 
Boots, rubber (See Rubber footwear) 
Borders, Karl, Aug. 1941 
Boren Committee (See Congressional 
Committees) 

Bougainville, Nov. 1943 
Bowles, Chester, July 1943, Nov. 1943, 
Jan. 1944, Mar. 1944, May 1944, 
Aug. 1945, Feb. 1946, June 1946 
Bowles v. Federated Meat Corporation, 
Sept. 1946 

Bowles v. NuWay Laundry, Aug. 1944 

Bowles v. Willingham, Mar. 1944 

Bowling alleys, Dec. 1945 

Box veneer, June 1943 

Boxes, second-hand cardboard, May 1944 

Bradley, Gen. Omar N., June 1945 

Brass, June 1946 

Bread, Mar. 1946, June 1946, Aug. 1946 

Bretton Woods Conference, June 1944 

Brick, Aug. 1944, Oct. 1944, Dec. 1945 

Briskets, Jan. 1945 

British 8th Army, Mar. 1943 

British election, July 1945 

British loan, May 1946 

Brodhead, Arthur S., June 1946 

Brooks, Robert R. R., June 1942, Mar. 

1944, Apr. 1944, May 1945, Oct. 

1945, June 1946 

Broom corn, Sept. 1943, Oct. 1946 
Brooms, Oct. 1946 

Brown, Prentiss M., Sept. 1942, Jan. 1943, 
Mar. 1943, Oct. 1943 
Brown v. Mars, Inc., May 1943 
Brownlee, James F., Aug. 1943, Aug. 1945 
Buckets, Aug. 1946 
Budapest, Feb. 1945 

Budget and Planning, Apr. 1942, Dec. 
1943, Jan. 1945, Oct. 1945, Oct. 
1946 


Building materials, Aug. 1942, Nov. 1942, 
Feb. 1945, Aug. 1945, Sept. 1945, 
Sept. 1946 

Buildings, prefabricated, Mar. 1945 
Bulkley, John M., Sept. 1946 
Burdick, Ivan D., July 1944, Jan. 1945 
Bureau of Internal Revenue, Sept. 1941 
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), May 

1943 

Burke, George J., Apr. 1943, Nov. 1943 
Bus rates, Dec. 1942, Apr. 1943 
Butchers’ blocks. May 1944 
Butter: 

Price, Dec. 1941, Jan. 1943, May 1943, 
June 1943, Aug. 1943, Nov. 1943, 
Nov. 1945, Jan. 1946, June 1946 
Rationing, Mar. 1943, Sept. 1943, Oct. 

1943, Apr. 1944, Oct. 1944, Dec. 

1944, July 1945 

Byrnes, James F., Oct. 1942, May 1943, 
Apr. 1945, July 1945, Sept. 1946 

c 

Cabbage, Feb. 1943, July 1943, June 

1945 

Cabinets, radio, Sept. 1945, June 1946 
Cairo Conference, Nov. 1943 
Camp, Harry F., Dec. 1941, Mar. 1943 
Campaigns, Information: 

Car Sharing, Nov. 1942 
Gasoline Rationing, Nov. 1942 
Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation, Oct. 

1944 

Idle Tire, Nov. 1942 
Point Rationing, Jan. 1943, Feb. 1943 
Campbell, Walker E., Jan. 1945 
Cancellation of food stamps, Dec. 1944 
Candy, Nov. 1943 

Canned goods, flat pricing, Congressional 
investigation, June 1943 
Canoes, Nov. 1944 
Carbon black, Mar. 1945 
Carbon products, Feb. 1946 
Carpets, Jan. 1946, Apr. 1946 
Carroll, Jean F., Sept. 1943, Nov. 1944 
Carrots, Feb. 1943 
Cars, (See Automobiles) 

Carson, Ivan, Sept. 1942, Oct. 1943 
Casablanca, Jan. 1943 
Case Bill, June 1946 
Cases, wooden beverage, Sept. 1945 
C. O. D. sales, July 1945 
Casket shoolcs, Mar. 1946 
Cassino, Feb. 1944 
Castings: 

Copper, Jan. 1944, Oct. 1945 

Gray iron, Oct. 1942, Sept. 1945, Apr. 

1946 

Malleable iron, Jan. 1945, Apr. 1946 
Steel, Nov. 1945, Mar. 1946 


Cattle, live, Jan. 1945 

Cavers, David, Nov. 1945, June 1946 

Ceiling differentials, enforcement, Aug. 

1944 

“Ceiling on Your Home”, movie, Apr. 
1946 

Cement, Sept. 1942, June 1944, Aug. 

1944, Sept. 1945 

Central Administrative Services (CAS) 
Mar. 1942, Nov. 1944 
Cereals, Mar. 1945, June 1946, Aug. 
1946 

Chain-store prices, Feb. 1944 
Chambray, Mar. 1944, June 1944 
Cheese: 

Price, Jan. 1943, Sept. 1944, Jan. 1945, 
May 1945, Feb. 1946, June 1946 
Rationing, Mar. 1943, June 1943, Oct. 

1943, Jan. 1944, Sept. 1945 
Cheese cloth, Apr. 1945 

Cherries, June 1944, Mar. 1945, May 

1945, July 1945 

China and pottery, Apr. 1942, June 1946 
Churchill, Winston, Sept. 1944, July 
1945, Mar. 1946 
Cigar cuttings, June 1944 
Cigarette shortage, Nov. 1944, Jan. 1945, 
Feb. 1945 

Cigarettes, Dec. 1941, May 1945, Apr. 
1946 

Cigars (See also Maximum Average 
Price) Nov. 1942, Sept. 1944, Nov. 

1944, Sept. 1945 

Citrus fruit, Nov. 1942, Jan. 1945, July 

1945 

Citrus juice, Feb. 1944, Jan. 1945 
Civil suit, field, June 1943 
Civilian Production Administration 
(CPA), Mar. 1946 

Civilian Requirements, WPB Vice Chair¬ 
man, May 1944 
Clams, Mar. 1945, June 1945 
Clark, Earl W., July 1946 
Clark, Ellsworth E., June 1943 
Clark, Tom C., May 1945 
Classification, store, Nov. 1944 
Clay, Apr. 1946 
Cleansers, household, May 1943 
Clement, John S., May 1944, Apr. 1946 
Clocks, May 1946 
Clothing: 

Cotton, Mar. 1945, Aug. 1946, Sept. 

1946 

Fall and winter, utility, July 1943, Dec. 

1944, Mar. 1945 
Furnishings, Mar. 1945 
Knitwear, Mar. 1946 
Low-cost, June 1944, Nov. 1945 
Men’s and boys’, July 1942, Oct. 1943, 
Apr. 1946 
Military, June 1942 


Rayon knit, Feb. 1944 

Women’s and girls’, Dec. 1942, May 

1942, July 1943, July 1944, Sept 
1944 

Work, Aug. 1942, Sept. 1944, Apr. 
1946 
Coal: 

Anthracite (hard) Jan. 1943, Nov. 

1943, Feb. 1944, June 1944, June 

1945, Sept. 1945, Dec. 1945 
Bituminous (soft) May 1942, Nov. 

1943, May 1945, Jan. 1946, June 
1946 

Lake shipping, July 1944, May 1945 
Rationing, Sept. 1943, Sept. 1945 
Small deliveries, Feb. 1945 
Coal strike. May 1943, Apr. 1946, May 

1946, Nov. 1946 
Coal tar, Aug. 1943 
Coats, fur, July 1942 

Cobb, David, Aug. 1941, Sept. 1943 
Cocoa, Dec. 1941, Sept. 1945 
Coconuts, Jan. 1944, Feb. 1944 
Cod, red, May 1945 
Coe, Allen, Apr. 1945, Aug. 1946 
Coffee: 

Litigation, Aug. 1946 
Price, Dec. 1941, Jan. 1943, May 1943, 
Jan. 1945, Aug. 1945, Nov. 1945, 
June 1946, Aug. 1946, Oct. 1946 
Rationing, Nov. 1942, June 1943, July 
1943 

Coke, Nov. 1943, May 1945, Jan. 1946, 
June 1946 

Coke, by-product, July 1945 
Collars, horse, Feb. 1944 
Collins, Clem W., Jan. 1942, Feb. 1944 
Coltman, Charles, July 1946 
Combined Food Board, June 1942 
Combined Production and Resources 
Board, June 1942 

Committees, Congressional (See Congres¬ 
sional Committees) 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), 
July 1943, Apr. 1946 
Commodity Practices Regulation, July 
1942 

Community ceiling prices, Jan. 1943, May 
1943, July 1943 

Community Service Panels, Sept. 1942 
Concrete, midwest, Feb. 1945 
Concrete products, Apr. 1944 
Cones, ice cream, Nov. 1943 
Confidentiality of financial information, 
Oct. 1942 

Congressional Advisers, Dec. 1943, July 
1946 

Congressional Committees, House: 
Agriculture, Oct. 1943 
Banking and Currency, Aug. 1941, June 
1945, Feb. 1946 


Executive Agencies (Smith), May 
1943, Mar. 1944, Apr. 1944, Mar. 
1945, June 1945, Sept. 1945 
Food Shortages, May 1945, Mar. 1946 
Interstate Commerce (Boren), June 
1943, Apr. 1944, Oct. 1946 
Postwar Planning and Policy (Colmer), 
Mar. 1946 

Small Business (Patman), Nov. 1942, 
Apr. 1943, Nov. 1945 
Congressional Committees, Senate: 

Agriculture, Sept. 1943, Nov. 1943, 
Mar. 1945, Oct. 1945, Apr. 1946 
Banking and Currency, Nov. 1944, Feb. 

1945, May 1946, June 1946 
Small Business (Murray), Jan. 1943, 
Dec. 1944, July 1944, Oct. 1945, 
Dec. 1945 Mar. 1946 
Congressional Information Dec. 1942 
Conklin Pen Co. v. Bowles, Jan. 1946 
Connally, Reagan, Aug. 1943, Jan. 1944 
Constitutionality of Price Control Act, 
Mar. 1944 

Construction controls (L-41), May 1945 
Construction machinery. May 1942 
Construction pricing. Congressional in¬ 
vestigation, Oct. 1945 
Construction services, Nov. 1942 
Consumer Division, May 1942, July 1942 
Consumer durable goods, Aug. 1942, July 
1943, Aug. 1944, Dec. 1944, June 

1945, Aug. 1945, Mar. 1946, Apr. 

1946, May 1946, Aug. 1946 
Consumer Relations Adviser, June 1944 
Consumer Services, July 1942 
Containers, wooden agricultural, June 

1942 

Continuation of price control, Congres¬ 
sional investigation, Mar. 1946 
Controlled Materials Plan (CMP), Nov. 
1942 

Converter regulation, Feb. 1944 
Cooking utensils, aluminum, Sept. 1945 
Cooperage, West Coast, Mar. 1944 
Cooperative as evasion, July 1946 
Copper, June 1946 
Coral Sea, May 1942 
Cordwood, Apr. 1944 
Corn, Mar. 1943, Dec. 1943, Mar. 1946, 
Apr. 1946 

Com, black market, Aug. 1946 
Com, broom, Sept. 1943, Oct. 1946 
Corn, canned, Aug. 1946 
Corn oil, Oct. 1946 
Corn products, June 1943, Aug. 1946 
Corn, white snapped, Oct. 1943 
Corned beef, cooked, Jan. 1945 
Cosmetics, Dec. 1942, Sept. 1946, Oct. 
1946 

Cost absorption, Nov. 1945 


Cost increases, accounting, June 1942 
Cost survey, canned food, Feb. 1944 
Cots, Apr. 1944 

Cotton (See also Textiles), Aug. 1943, 
Jan. 1946, Mar. 1946, Oct. 1946 
Cotton accounting, June 1944 
Cotton ginning services, Aug. 1942, Aug. 
1943 

Cotton goods, fine, Jan. 1943, June 1943, 
Sept. 1944 

Cotton grey goods, June 1941 
Cotton prints, Apr. 1945 
Cotton products. May 1942 
Cotton mgs, hand hooked, Dec. 1943 
Cotton storage, Nov. 1944 
Cotton tire cord and fabric, Oct. 1945 
Cotton yam, Aug. 1944, Sept. 1944 
Cottonseed, Dec. 1943 
Cottonseed oil, Oct. 1946 
Couches, upholstered, Apr. 1944 
Cough drops, Nov. 1945 
Counterfeit ration currency. Mar. 1944, 
July 1945 

Counterfeiters, Apr. 1944, May 1944, 
Sept. 1944 

Court Review Office, Mar. 1942, June 
1943, Sept. 1945, Aug. 1946 
Cranberries, Oct. 1944, Oct. 1945 
Credit clothing. May 1946 
Credit Policy Office, Mar. 1944 
Criminal cases, field, May 1943 
Criminal prosecutions, Mar. 1944 
Crude oil, subsidy, Aug. 1944 
Cucumbers, Feb. 1944, Jan. 1945, June 
1945 

Cummings, Barton A., Sept. 1942, Mar. 

1944 

Curfew, Feb. 1945, May 1945 
Currency protection, July 1944 
Currie, G. Brainerd, June 1944, July 

1945 

Curtains, glass, Sept. 1943 
Cutting services. Sept. 1946 
Cypress, yellow (See also Lumber) Aug. 
1945 

D 

Dairy products, Dec. 1942, Aug. 1946 
Darlan, Dec. 1942 
Dates, May 1945 
Davis, James P., Sept. 1943 
Davis, William H., Mar. 1945 
D-day, June 1944 
DDT, Sept. 1944 
Dean, Joel, Apr. 1942 
Debiting program, gasoline, Dec. 1943 
Decontrol Board, July 1946, Aug. 1946 
Defense supplies contracts, Jan. 1943 
Delays at OPA, Congressional investiga¬ 
tion, Jan. 1943 


Delegation of authority, Aug. 1945 
Demobilization, Sept. 1945, Oct. 1945, 
Nov. 1945, Dec. 1945, Jan. 1946, 
Feb. 1946, Mar. 1946, Apr. 1946, 
May 1946 

Democratic nomination, June 1944 
Denim, Mar. 1944, June 1944 
Depressed industry* audit, Mar. 1943 
Derieux, James, Mar. 1943, Mar. 1944, 
Apr. 1944. Mar. 1945 
Dewey, Col. Bradley, Sept. 1943 
Diamonds, Aug. 1943 
Dice, George A., Jan. 1946 
Dickerson, F. Reed, Jan. 1945 
Dieppe, Aug. 1942 
Disaster increases, July 1945 
Distribution centers, Dec. 1942 
District Directors’ radio programs, Dec. 
1943 

District Offices: 

Opening, Mar. 1942 
Consolidations, Feb. 1944 
Closings, Sept. 1943, Oct. 1943, Dec. 

1943, Dec. 1944, Aug. 1945, Sept. 
1945, Oct. 1945, Nov. 1945, Dec. 
1945, Jan. 1946, Nov. 1946 

Donnelly, Thomas C., Feb. 1944, Apr. 

1944, Sept. 1944, Nov. 1944 
Doolittle, Gen. James, Apr. 1942 
Douglas fir (See also Lumber) Apr. 1944, 

June 1945, Mar. 1946, May 1946 
Draft, Feb. 1942, Nov. 1942, Dec. 1942 
Drinks, ceilings posted. Mar. 1945 
Drugs, Dec. 1942 
Drums, steel container, Sept. 1945 
Dry cleaners prices posted, Jan. 1945 
Duck, cotton, Dec. 1944 
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Aug. 1944, 
Oct. 1944 

Dummy wholesalers, Dec. 1944 
Duniway, Ben C., Oct. 1945 
DuPont, Sept. 1946 
Dwellings, prefabricated. May 1946 

E 

Earning standard, industry, Aug. 1944 
Eastman, Joseph B., Dec. 1941, Mar. 1944 
Economic Adviser, Dec. 1942, Sept. 1943 
Economic Stabilization Director, May 
1943, Mar. 1945, Feb. 1946, June 
1946 

Egg cases, Apr. 1942, Oct. 1943 
Eggs and egg products, Dec. 1941, July 
1943, Mar. 1944, Sept. 1945 
Ehrlich, Robert R., July 1944 
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D., June 1942, 
Dec. 1943, Feb. 1943, Jan. 1944 
El Alamein, July 1942 
Elections, Nov. 1942, Nov. 1944, Nov. 
1946: 

British, July 1945 


Electric ranges, Apr. 1945 
Electrical workers strike, Jan. 1946 
Elliott, W. Y., May 1944 
Emergency Court of Appeals, Mar. 1942, 
Jan. 1945, July 1945: 

Judges, Mar. 1942, June 1943 
Jurisdiction, May 1943, Mar. 1944 
Emerson, Rupert, May 1942, Sept. 1943 
Emerson, Thomas I., Aug. 1941, Sept. 
1943, May 1945 

Employees, OPA, Dec. 1942, Aug. 1945, 
Sept. 1945, Oct. 1945, July 1946 
Enforcement: 

Field, May 1943, June 1943 
Gasoline, Dec. 1943 
Lumber, June 1946, Sept. 1946 
Ration currency, May 1944, Sept. 1944 
Recovery of stolen safety paper, Oct. 

1944 

Rent, Mar. 1944 
Special agents, July 1944 
Staff reorganized, Feb. 1943 
Textiles, Jan. 1945, Dec. 1945 
Enforcement campaigns: 

GMPR, Sept. 1942 
Meat, Dec. 1942 

Enforcement Department, Sept. 1943: 
Deputy Administrator, Sept. 1943, May 

1945 

Executive Officer, Dec. 1942, Nov. 1945 
Apparel and Industrial Materials Divi¬ 
sion, Nov. 1942, Feb. 1944, Aug. 

1946 

Food Division, Feb. 1942, May 1944, 
June 1945, Sept. 1946 
Fuel and Consumer Goods Division, 
Feb. 1943, Nov. 1944 
Litigation Division, Jan. 1943, Nov. 
1945, June 1946 

Rent and Consumer Goods Division, 
Dec. 1945 

Rent and Services Division, Sept. 1943, 
June 1944, July 1945 
Special Investigations Division, July 
1944 

Enforcement, tie-in sales, June 1946 
Eniwetok, Feb. 1944 
Envelopes, Oct. 1945 
Equipment: 

Electrical, May 1946 
Farm, May 1942, Nov. 1942 
Industrial, Aug. 1945, Oct. 1945, Sept. 
1946 

Photographic, Apr. 1946 
Poultry farm, Sept. 1946 
Printing, June 1946 
Radio, Mar. 1946 
Ester gum. Sept. 1944, Mar. 1945 
Eurich, Alvin, May 1942, Nov. 1942 


Eviction for alterations, Sept. 1945 
Eviction provision liberalized, June 1944 
Eviction rules for veterans relaxed, Dec. 
1944 

Excise tax, Feb. 1944 
Executive Order 8734, Apr. 1941 
Executive Order 8875, Aug. 1941 
Executive Order 9017, Jan. 1942 
Executive Order 9697, Feb. 1946 
Executive Order 9745, June 1946 
Export-Import Office, June 1942, Oct. 

1943, Apr. 1946 

Export Price Regulation, Apr. 1942 

F 

Fabrics, June 1942, Mar. 1944, Feb. 

1946, May 1946 
Fact-finding boards, Dec. 1945 
Fainsod, Merle, Mar. 1942, Mar. 1943, 
May 1943 

Famine Emergency Committee, Mar. 
1946 

Famine relief program, Mar. 1946 

Farm equipment, Nov. 1942 

Farm machinery, May 1942 

Farm Parity Bill, Apr. 1943 

Farm prices, Sept. 1942 

Farm services, Sept. 1944 

Fat (waste) July 1942, Dec. 1943, Feb. 

1944, Sept. 1945 

Fats and Oils (See also Oils, edible): 
Price, Dec. 1941, Sept. 1943, Feb. 1944, 
Sept. 1944, Dec. 1944, Jan. 1945, 
Mar. 1945, Oct. 1946 
Rationing, Mar. 1943, Apr. 1944, Jan. 

1945, Apr. 1945, May 1945, Sept. 
1945, Oct. 1945, Nov. 1945, Oct. 
1946 

Fats and oils for restaurants, Congres¬ 
sional investigation, July 1945 
Feathers and down, May 1943 
Federal Reserve Board, Mar. 1942 
Feed, May 1943, July 1943, Sept. 1943, 
May 1945, Oct. 1946 
Feinberg, Sidney S., Aug. 1946 
Felt, roofing, Aug. 1945 
Fence posts, May 1944 
Ferguson, Charles L., Mar. 1943 
Fertilizers, Apr. 1942, Nov. 1943 
Field Offices (See also District Offices 
and Local Boards) Mar. 1942, May 
1942 

Consolidation plan, Aug. 1945 
Field operations, May 1942, Oct. 1943, 
Mar. 1944 

Field, Richard H., Dec. 1943 
Filberts, Oct. 1944, Dec. 1944 
Fillets, fresh fluke, Jan. 1945 
Film scrap, June 1943 


Financial reporting, Sept. 1941, Apr. 
1942, Jan. 1944 

Finley, Robert, May 1944, June 1945 
Fireclay, June 1946 
Firewood, Sept. 1945 
Fish, July 1943, Sept. 1943, Mar. 1944, 
June 1944, Jan. 1945, Apr. 1945, 
May 1946, June 1946: 

Rationing, Mar. 1943 
Flannel, Feb. 1945 
Flashlights, Dec. 1941 
Flaxseed, May 1943, May 1946 
Flint grit. Sept. 1943 
Floor coverings, Jan. 1942 
Flooring: 

Hardwood, Nov. 1943, July 1943, Nov. 

1944, Mar. 1946, Aug. 1946 
Rubber, Feb. 1946 

Flour, Mar. 1944, June 1945, Aug. 1946 
Food, canned, cost survey, Feb. 1944 
Food control—WPB to USD A, Dec. 1942 
Food, dollar-and-cent prices at retail, 
May 1943 

Food price lists, May 1943, Aug. 1945 
Food Price Regulation, June 1944 
Food Rationing (See butter, cheese, cof¬ 
fee, fats and oils, margarine, meat, 
oils edible, processed foods, sugar) 
Food rations for miners, June 1945 
Food shortages, Congressional investiga¬ 
tion, May 1945, Apr. 1946 
Food store classifications, May 1943, 
Mar. 1945 

Food subsidies, Congressional investiga¬ 
tion, Nov. 1943 

Food, temporary price controls, Oct. 1942 
Food, wholesale markup, Oct. 1942 
Foods, frozen and processed, July 1943, 
Aug. 1943, Oct. 1945, Jan. 1946, 
May 1946, June 1946 
Foods, pet, Apr. 1946 
Footwear, canvas and waterproof, Jan. 
1944, Feb. 1946 

Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), 
Sept. 1943, Sept. 1945 
Forer, Joseph, Feb. 1944, Aug. 1946 
Forgings, ferrous, Sept. 1945 
Forrestal, James V., May 1944 
48-Hour Week, Feb. 1943 
Fountain pens, Nov. 1944 
Frank, Richard, Sept. 1946 
Frankfort, Feb. 1945 
Franklin, Esther Cole, June 1944 
French, Patterson H., Jan. 1943, Jan. 
1944 

Fruits, canned, dried, and frozen, July 

1942, Aug. 1942, Sept. 1942, Dec. 

1943, Mar. 1944, Sept. 1945, Jan. 
1946, June 1946 

Fruits, citrus, Nov. 1945, Dec. 1945, Jan. 
1946, Apr. 1946, May 1946 


Fry, H. Burke, Apr. 1942, Dec. 1943, Jan. 

1945, Oct. 1945 
Fuel oil: 

Price, Sept. 1944, Sept. 1945 
Rationing, Oct. 1942, Apr. 1943, July 

1943, Aug. 1943, Sept. 1943, May 

1944, July 1944, May 1945, Aug. 
1945 

Fur, June 1944, Nov. 1944 
Fur coats, July 1942, Apr. 1945 
Furnaces, warm air, Apr. 1946 
Furnishings, home, Mar. 1945 
Furniture, July 1945, May 1946, Sept. 
1946: 

Household, Dec. 1943, Jan. 1946 
Metal, Apr. 1942 
Miniature, Feb. 1945 
School room, Aug. 1946 
Unpainted, July 1944 
Upholstered, Mar. 1945, May 1946 

G 

Gadgets, household, Oct. 1945 
Galbraith, J. Kenneth, Aug. 1941, Mar. 

1942, Apr. 1942, June 1943 
Gas ranges, Aug. 1944 
Gasoline: 

Rationing: 

A Book, Aug. 1944 
Appeals, Dec. 1944 
Armed services, July 1944 
Bulk consumers, June 1943 
Change of residence, Feb. 1944 
Coupon value cut, Aug. 1943, Sept. 
1943, Oct. 1943 

Coupon value increase, June 1945 
East coast coupon, July 1942 
East coast punch card. May 1942 
End of program, Aug. 1945 
Endorsement of coupons, July 1942 
Farm organizations, Apr. 1944 
Furlough allowances, May 1943, July 
1944 

Nation-wide, Dec. 1942 
Non-highway, Mar. 1944 
Plant area boards, Dec. 1943 
Political campaign managers, Sept. 
1944 

Salesmen excluded, Dec. 1943 
Truck and bus, Apr. 1944, Oct. 1944 
Truck coupons, June 1943 
Vacation trip, July 1943 
Veterans’ allowance, Aug. 1945 
Victory garden, Apr. 1944 
Price, May 1942, Sept. 1944, Oct 
1944, Sept. 1945 

Gasoline rationing, Congressional investi¬ 
gation, Jan. 1943 
Gauze, Jan. 1946 


General Counsel, Apr. 1942, Apr. 1943 
Dec. 1943: 

Associate General Counsel: 

Price, Aug. 1942, Nov. 1945, June 
1946 

Rationing, Feb. 1942, June 1943 
Rent, Jan. 1942, Aug. 1943, J an 
1945 

Staff operations, Apr. 1942 
General Electric strike, Jan. 1946 Mar 
1946 

General Manager, July 1943, Sept. 1943 
General Maximum Price Regulation 
(GMPR) (See also Maximum Price 
Regulations) Apr. 1942, May 1942 
Nov. 1942: 

Enforcement, Dec. 1942 
Litigation, Dec. 1943, June 1945 
General Motors strike, Nov. 1945, Dec. 

1945, Jan. 1946, Mar. 1946 
Gentner, Leo F., Oct. 1943, July 1944, 
Nov. 1945, June 1946 
Gettell, Richard G., Mar. 1942, Jan 
1943 

GI Bill of Rights, Sept. 1943, June 1944 
Gift packages, mixed, Sept. 1944 
Gilbert, Ethel B., July 1944, June 1946 
Gilbert Islands, Sept. 1942 
Gilbert, Richard V., Aug. 1941, Apr. 
1942, Dec. 1942 

Gillies, Roderick M., Aug. 1946 
Gin, Cuban, Mar. 1944 
Ginning service, cotton, Oct. 1945 
Ginsburg, David, Aug. 1941, Apr. 1942, 
Apr. 1943 

Gismond, John F., Sept. 1945, Nov. 1945 
Gitchell, Byres H., Jan. 1944, Nov. 1944 
Glass, Jan. 1946 
Glassware, Oct. 1946 
Gloves, work, Aug. 1944, May 1946, 
July 1946, Sept. 1946 
Glue, Nov. 1943 
Goat meat. Mar. 1944 
Goldmines, Sept. 1942 
Gordon, Colin S., Nov. 1945, Mar. 1946 
Gorfinkel, John A., July 1945, Nov. 1945 
Gottesman, Callman, Apr. 1942 
Government surplus, Mar. 1945, Aug. 
1945 

Grade labeling, Jan. 1943, Aug. 1943, 
Sept. 1943, Dec. 1944 
Grain, Dec. 1943, Jan. 1944, Apr. 1945, 
June 1945, Mar. 1946, May 1946, 
Aug. 1946 

Grain and feed shortages and prices, 
Congressional investigation, Oct. 
1945, Mar. 1946 

Grain doors, general manager type, Oct. 
1943 

Grain policy, inter-agency, May 1946 
Grape juice, Dec. 1943 


Grapefruit, Oct. 1943, Jan. 1944, Feb. 
1944, Nov. 1944 

Grapefruit juice, canned, Jan. 1943 
Grapes, Aug. 1943, Sept. 1943, Sept. 

1944, July 1945, Nov. 1945 
Grates, fireplace, Nov. 1943 
“Gray” bread, Mar. 1946 

Green, Paul M., May 1942, June 1943, 
Jan. 1944, Jan. 1945 
Greenberg, Herman A., June 1945, Sept. 
1946 

Grinding services, Sept. 1946 
Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation Cam¬ 
paign, Oct. 1944 
Grocery store check, Mar. 1944 
Gromyko, Aug. 1943 
Grosny oil fields, Aug. 1942 
Guadalcanal, Aug. 1942, Nov. 1942, Feb. 
1943 

Guineas, July 1945 

H 

Haley, Bernard F., Dec. 1942 
Hall, Warren, Oct. 1944 
Ham, May 1943, Jan. 1945 
Hamm, John E., Aug. 1941, Mar. 1942, 
Apr. 1942, Sept. 1943 
Hand tools, Aug. 1946 
Handkerchief, men’s, Jan. 1946 
Hangers, garment, Jan. 1944, May 1945 
Hanson, Percy L., Jan. 1945 
Hardship adjustments, July 1944, Jan. 

1945, May 1946 

Hardware, builders, Oct. 1945, Nov. 1945, 
July 1946 

Hardwood, Feb. 1944, Feb. 1945, Apr. 

1946 

Harness and saddlery, Oct. 1946 
Harris, Alexander, Apr. 1944 
Harris, Louis H., Aug. 1941, Apr. 1942 
Harris, Seymour E., Aug. 1941, June 
1942, Oct. 1943 

Harris, Thomas, Feb. 1942, June 1943 
Harrison, Richard C., June 1944, Feb. 

1945 

Hart, Henry, Aug. 1942, Nov. 1945 
Hat bodies, Panama, Nov. 1944 
Hats, felt, Mar. 1946 
Hay, May 1945, Mar. 1946 
Hay, Edward N., Nov. 1942, Sept. 1943 
Hearing Administrator, Mar. 1943 
Hecht Co. Case, Feb. 1943, July 1943, 
Feb. 1944. 

Heels, rubber, Nov. 1944, Feb. 1945, June 

1946 

Heflebower, Richard B., June 1943, 
Sept. 1943, June 1946 
Helmets, air-raid-warden, Dec. 1944 
Hemlock, western, May 1946 


Henderson, Leon, 1940, Aug. 1941, Feb. 
1942, Mar. 1942, Apr. 1942, Nov. 
1942, Dec. 1942 

Henderson v. Pittsburgh Steel Co., Apr. 

1942 

Herring, Nov. 1942 
Herring, Clyde, Mar. 1943 
Hides, Aug. 1945, Oct. 1946 
Highest-price-line limitation, June 1942, 
July 1942, Feb. 1945 
Highest-price-line limitation, Congres¬ 
sional investigation, Oct. 1945, Mar. 
1946 

Hill, T. Arnold, Oct. 1942, Nov. 1944 

Hiroshima, Aug. 1945 

Hoffman, Austin C., July 1942, Aug. 

1942, June 1943 
Hog skin, June 1944 
Hogs: 

Differential ceilings, Oct. 1944, Dec. 
1944 

Dressed, May 1945 
Live, Oct. 1943, Feb. 1944, Oct. 1945 
Slaughter, May 1946 
Hold-the-Line Order, Apr. 1943 
Holder, Fred C., Apr. 1946 
Holland, July 1942 

Home Front Pledge, Aug. 1943, Sept. 

1943, Nov. 1943 

Homes, prefabricated, Feb. 1946 
Honey, May 1944 

Hoover, Herbert, Mar. 1946, May 1946 
Hopkins, Harry, Jan. 1946 
Hops, Sept. 1945 

Horror exhibit (NRDGA), Sept. 1945 
Horse meat, frozen, July 1943 
Horton, Robert W., Sept. 1942, Feb. 1943 
Hosiery, Feb. 1942, May 1943, Oct. 1943, 
Jan. 1944, Jan. 1945, Nov. 1945, Jan. 
1946, June 1946 

Hotchkiss, Ralph R., Sept. 1942, May 

1943 

House Banking and Currency Committee 
(See Congressional Committees) 
House dresses, women’s, July 1944 
Household articles, Oct. 1943, Dec. 1945 
Housewares, Mar. 1946 
Housing Bill, Mar. 1946 
Housing shortage, Dec. 1945 
Housing shortage, Congressional investi¬ 
gation, Oct. 1945 
Housing, veterans’, Mar. 1946 
Houston, Col. Bryan, Oct. 1943, May 

1944 

Hudson River Valley area, brick formula, 
Mar. 1943 

Hull, Cordell, Nov. 1944 
Hurricane increases, Oct. 1944, Nov. 1944, 
Jan. 1945 

Hyman, Jacob D., Sept. 1945, Aug. 1946 


I 

Ice, May 1942, Feb. 1946 
Ice boxes, new, June 1943 
Ice cream, Feb. 1945 
I ekes, Harold L., Feb. 1946 
Ickes-Lewis wage agreement, Nov. 1943 
Import Price Regulation, Mar. 1944, 
Mar. 1946 
Imports, Dec. 1941 
Income tax, Oct. 1942 
Income tax transcripts, Sept. 1941 
Industrial products, Oct. 1945 
Industrial users, food rationing, Mar. 
1943, Dec. 1943 

Industry Advisory Committees, June 
1943, July 1944 

Information Department, Sept. 1942: 
Deputy Administrator, Sept. 1942, Feb. 

1943, Aug. 1943, Dec. 1943, Apr. 

1944, Nov. 1944, May 1945, June 
1946 

Campaigns Division, Mar. 1944 
(Program Planning) Mar. 1946 
Community Service Division, May 
1942, Nov. 1942, Mar. 1943, Apr. 
1944 

Editorial Division, May 1943, Jan. 

1945, May 1946 

Field Division, Feb. 1944, Sept. 1944, 
July 1946 

Information Division, OEM, Apr. 1942 
Ingots, aluminum, June 1943 
Ingots, brass and bronze, Apr. 1944 
In-line pricing, Dec. 1945, June 1946 
Insecticide, May 1942 
Institutional users, food rationing, Apr. 
1942, Nov. 1942, Mar. 1943, Mar. 
1944, Jan. 1945, Mar. 1945 
Instruments, musical, Mar. 1946 
Instruments, surgical and dental, July 
1944 

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 
Dec. 1942, Apr. 1943, May 1943 
Interstate Commerce Committee (See 
Congressional Committees) 
Inventories, war contractors’, Sept. 1945, 
Jan. 1946 

Inventory valuation, accounting, Apr. 

1942 

Invested capital’s net worth, June 1943 
Iron and steel products, Apr. 1941, Dec. 
1941, May 1942 

Iron and steel warehousers and jobbers, 
Mar. 1945 

Iron castings, Oct. 1943 

Iron ore, Apr. 1942, Dec. 1943 

Iron, pig, Feb. 1945, Oct. 1945, Mar. 

1946, July 1946 

Irons, electric, Aug. 1944, Jan. 1945 

Italy, Aug. 1944 

Iwo Jima, Feb. 1945, Mar. 1945 


J 

James, Fleming, Jan. 1943, Nov. 1945 
Jams, jellies and preserves. Sept. 1943, 
Oct. 1943, Nov. 1943, Oct. 1946 
Japan bombed, July 1945 
Japan surrenders, Sept. 1945 
Java Sea, Feb. 1942 
Jawbone control, Jan. 1941, Feb. 1942 
Jeeps, civilian, July 1945 
Jeffers, William M., Sept. 1942 
Jellies (See Jams, jellies and preserves) 
Job freeze, May 1943 
Jones, Harry, Feb. 1942, May 1944 
Jones, Jesse, Jan. 1945 
Joseph, Sylvan, Dec. 1941, Nov. 1943 
Judd, Frank, June 1946 
Justice Department, Mar. 1942, May 
1943 

Jute, Apr. 1944 

K 

Keezer, Dexter M., Apr. 1942, July 1943 

Kegs, beer, Apr. 1945 

Keir, J. S., Aug. 1941 

Kelley, James E., Jan. 1945 

Kerosene, Sept. 1944 

Kershaw, Joseph A., Oct. 1942 

Kessel, John F., Oct. 1945 

Kharkov, Aug. 1943 

King, James F., Aug. 1943, Oct. 1943 

Kinsella, Thomas J., Aug. 1946 

Kitchenware, Oct. 1946 

Klein, Milton, Nov. 1942, Feb. 1944, Nov. 

1945, June 1946 
Knox, Frank, Apr. 1944 
Kraft paper, July 1942 
Kramer and Uchitelle Inc., v. Eddington 
Fabrics Corp., July 1942 
Kroeger, Louis J., Apr. 1942, Mar. 1945, 
Oct. 1945 

Krug, Julius A., Aug. 1944 

L 

Labor Department, Sept. 1945 
Labor-Management Conference, Nov. 

1945 

Labor Policy Committee, June 1942 
Labor Relations Adviser, June 1942, Apr. 
1944, Oct. 1944 

La Guardia, Fiorello, Mar. 1946 
Lamb: 

Price, Oct. 1942, Apr. 1943 
Rationing, Apr. 1944, July 1945, Sept. 
1945 

Lame, Oct. 1946 

Lamps, Feb. 1944, June 1946, Oct. 1946 
Landlords, Detroit, Aug. 1942, June 1943 


Lard, Mar. 1944, Jan. 1945, Apr. 1945 
Lath, gypsum, Aug. 1945, Nov. 1945 
Laundries, Apr. 1943, Dec. 1943 
Laundry stoves, Aug. 1944 
Lawnmowers, Oct. 1945 
Lawrence, Paul S., June 1945 
Laws, Bolitha J., June 1943 
Lead, Jan. 1942, June 1946 
Leather, Jan. 1945, Apr. 1945, May 1946, 
Oct. 1946 

Lee, Maurice W., Oct. 1945 
Legal reorganization, Apr. 1943 
Legislation: 

Price Control, Aug. 1941, Jan. 1942, 
June 1944, June 1945, June 1946, 
July 1946 

Stabilization Act, Oct. 1942 
War Powers Act, Mar. 1942 
Legislative support, N. Y., Apr. 1943 
Lehman, Herbert H., Nov. 1942, Mar. 
1946 

Lend-Lease Act, Mar. 1941, May 1944, 
Aug. 1945 

Leningrad, Jan. 1943 

Leonard, J. Paul, Mar. 1943, Apr. 1944 

Lettuce, July 1943 

Leventhal, Harold, Aug. 1941, July 1943 
Levitties, Samuel, Sept. 1945, July 1946 
Lewis, John L., Apr. 1943, Oct. 1946, 
Nov. 1946 
Leyte, Oct. 1944 
L-41 WPB, Oct. 1945 
Licensing provisions. Sept. 1943 
Lidice, June 1942 

Lime, building, May 1945, Oct. 1945 
Limestone, quarry, May 1945 
Linens, Feb. 1942, Oct. 1945, Aug. 1946 
Linoleum, Feb. 1946, Apr. 1946 
Linseed oil, May 1943, Aug. 1943 
Liquor, Jan. 1945, Aug. 1945 
Litigation: 

Absar Realty Co. v. Bowles, June 1945 
Ambrosia Brewing Co. v. Bowles (new 
brands), Dec. 1944 
Andy J. Womack v. Bowles, Dec. 1944 
Armour v. Bowles (meat), Mar. 1945 
Armour v. Brown (meat), Aug. 1943 
Automatic Fire Alarm Co. v. Bowles 
(fire and theft protection), July 1944 
Avon Western Corp. v. Bowles (poultry 
standards), Nov. 1944 
Barnett v. Bowles (liquor), Aug. 1945 
Birtchard Dairy v. Bowles (milk), July 
1945 

Bowles v. Seminole Rock and Sand Co. 
(GMPR base period prices), June 
1945 

Bowles v. Shawano Nat’l Bank (sub- 
pena power), Nov. 1945 
Bowles v. Sheeler (delegation of au¬ 
thority to field attorneys), Aug. 1945 


Bowles v. Villari (meat co-ops), July 
1945 

Cal. Lima Bean Growers Asso. v. 
Bowles (agricultural commodities), 

Aug. 1945 

Case v. Bowles (states and their 
agencies), Feb. 1946 
Chatlos v. Brown (rent), May 1943 
City of Dallas v. Bowles (rent), Dec. 
1945 

Davies Warehouse Co. v. Brown (ware¬ 
house rates). May 1943 
Ebling Brewing Co. v. Porter (new- 
brand pricing), Aug. 1946 
Foster & Co. v. Bowles (roll-back and 
contracts), Sept. 1944 
Fournace v. Bowles (stay of enforce¬ 
ment), Mar. 1945 

Gillespie-Rogers Pyatt Co. v. Bowles 
(“industry earnings” standard), 
Aug. 1944 

Gold-Form, Inc. v. Bowles (in-line 
pricing), Dec. 1945 
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. 

Porter (green coffee), Aug. 1946 
Great Northern Cooperative Asso. v. 
Bowles (dummy wholesalers), Dec. 
1944 

Halibut Producers Cooperative v. Por¬ 
ter (vitamin oils). Sept. 1946 
Heinz v. Bowles (meat), Mar. 1945 
Heinz v. Bowles (meat), July 1945 
Heinz, et al. v. Bowles (slaughterers), 
July 1945 

Henderson v. Washington M & A Mo¬ 
tor Lines (bus rates), Dec. 1942, 
Apr. 1943 

Homewood Development Co. v. Bowles 
(rent), Apr. 1945 

Hudson Valley Fuel Corp. v. Bowles 
(base-period prices), June 1945. 
Hulbert & Bowles v. Twin Falls County 
(states and their agencies), Feb. 
1946 

Interwoven Stocking Co. v. Bowles 
(“before taxes”), Apr. 1944 
Kahn v. Bowles (meat), Mar. 1945 
Lincoln Savings Bank v. Brown (safe 
deposit box). May 1943 
Lockerty v. Phillips (jurisdiction of 
Emergency Court of Appeals), May 
1943 

Martin G. Taub v. Bowles (liquor), 
June 1945 

Martini v. Porter (new-goods prices), 
July 1946 

Montgomery Ward v. Bowles (highest- 
price-line limitation), Feb. 1945 
Parker v. Porter (rent), Mar. 1946 
People v. Lewis (local ordinance), 
Dec. 1945 


People v. Mailman (state law, OPA), 
Dec. 1944 

People v. Sell (Detroit OPA ordinance), 
Dec. 1944 

Philadelphia Coke Co. v. Bowles 
(GMPR), Dec. 1943 
Porter v. Dicken (rent). May 1946 
Porter v. Granite State Packing Co. 

(enforcement), June 1946 
Porter v. Kramer (new-goods prices), 
July 1946 

Porter v. Lee (rent). May 1946 
Porter v. Senderowitz (new-goods 
prices), July 1946 

Porter v. Villari (co-op as evasion), 
July 1946 

Porter v. Warner Holding Co. (rent), 
June 1946 

Roach v. Johnson (rent), Feb. 1943 
Safeway Stores Inc. v. Bowles (store 
classification), Nov. 1944 
Safeway Stores v. Porter (produce). 
Mar. 1946 

Thomas Paper Stock Co. v. Bowles 
(waste paper standards). Mar. 1945 
315 W. 97th Street Realty Co. et al. v. 
Bowles (rent), June 1945 

315 W. 97th Street Realty Co. v. Por¬ 
ter (rent), Aug. 1946 
U. S. v. Johnson (rent), Feb. 1943 
Vitamins, Inc. v. Bowles (vitamins). 
May 1945 

White Trimming Houses, Inc. v. 
Porter (apparel MAP), Mar. 1946 
Little, Herbert, Jan. 1945, May 1946 
Little Steel Formula, July 1942, Aug. 
1942 

Livestock ceilings and subsidies, Congres¬ 
sional investigation, Oct 1943 
Local Boards (See Boards, OPA Local) 
Local ordinance, OPA, Dec. 1944, Dec. 
1945 

Loggers, extra rations, June 1943 
Logging services, July 1943 
Logs: 

Aircraft, Jan. 1944 

Hickory and ash, Oct. 1944, Sept 1945 
Northeastern, Sept. 1944 
Prime grade hardwood, May 1943 
West Coast, June 1942, Apr. 1944, 
Dec. 1945, Mar. 1946 
Logs and bolts, areas and types, May 

1944 

London Conference, Sept 1945, Oct 

1945 

London, David, June 1946 

Long, Norton S., Apr. 1944, July 1945 

Loose Leaf Services: 

Attorneys, Aug. 1942 
Local Board Manual, Mar. 1943, Mar. 
1944, Nov. 1944 


OPA Manual, Feb. 1944 
Ration Banking Manual, Dec. 1944 
Luggage, June 1946, Oct. 1946 
Lumber: 

Appalachian and Northern, May 1942, 
Nov. 1943, Dec. 1943, Dec. 1945 
Cypress, Feb. 1944 

Douglas fir, Apr. 1944, June 1945, 
Mar. 1946, May 1946 
Southern, Feb. 1942, Aug. 1943, Mar. 

1944, Dec. 1944, Jan. 1945, Dec. 

1945, Feb. 1946, Mar. 1946 
Used, Apr. 1945 

Western, Oct. 1941, Feb. 1942, June 

1943, Dec. 1943, May 1944, June 

1944, Nov. 1944, Mar. 1946, May 

1946, June 1946 

Lumber black market and enforcement. 
May 1944, Sept. 1946 
Lumber control, informal, May 1944 
Lumber prices and shortages, Congres¬ 
sional investigation. Mar. 1945 
Luzon, Jan. 1945 

M 

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, Mar. 1942, 
Sept. 1945 

MacPhail, Donald B., Sept 1942, Feb. 
1944 

Machine parts, Oct. 1945, Dec. 1945 
Machine tools, Feb. 1941, Jan. 1942 
Machinery: 

Construction, Sept. 1946 
Cotton ginning, Feb. 1946 
Electrical, May 1946, Sept 1946 
Farm, May 1946 
Food processing, Sept 1946 
Hardware, Aug. 1945 
Industrial, Dec. 1945 
Oil drilling, May 1946 
Printing, Jan. 1946 
Road, May 1942 

Machines, business, Oct. 1945, May 1946 
Machines, washing, Apr. 1946 
Madigan, John J., Apr. 1945 
Magnesium, Aug. 1945 
Magruder, Calvert, Mar. 1942 
Mahogany, Oct. 1945 
Maintenance, machinery. Mar. 1945 
Maintenance services, construction equip¬ 
ment, July 1945 

Mantles, incandescent, Oct. 1946 
Manual, OPA, Feb. 1944 
Manual of Price Panel Operations, Mar. 
1944 

Manuals (See Loose Leaf Service) 

Manuel, Frank E., Nov. 1942, Apr. 1944, 
July 1945 

MAP (See Maximum Average Price) 


Margarine: 

Price, Apr. 1944, Aug. 1944, Oct. 1946 
Rationing, Apr. 1944, Apr. 1945 
Maris, Albert B., Mar. 1942, June 1943 
Maritime strike, June 1946, Sept. 1946, 
Oct. 1946 

Markup technique. Congressional investi¬ 
gation, Jan. 1943 

Marple, Elliott, May 1943, Jan. 1945 
Marquardt, Charles A., Jan. 1944, Aug. 
1946 

Marsh, Frank E., Apr. 1943, Oct. 1943, 
Mar. 1944 

Matches, July 1943, Sept. 1943 
Materials, building (See Building Ma¬ 
terials) 

Materials, industrial, Dec. 1945 
Mattresses, inner-spring, Dec. 1945 
Maximum Average Price: 

Apparel, Apr. 1945, Aug. 1945, Sept. 

1945, Dec. 1945, Mar. 1946, July 
1946 

Cigars, Nov. 1944, Sept. 1945, July 
1946 

Rayon, May 1945, June 1945, Jan. 

1946, Mar. 1946, July 1946 
Wool, June 1945, July 1945, July 

1946 

Maximum Average Price Regulation, 
Congressional investigation, Mar. 
1945, June 1945 

Maximum Price Regulations (MPR), 
Price Schedules (PS) and other 
regulations: 

[These are not exact titles of OPA regu¬ 
lations] 

1 to 105, Feb. 1942 

1— Used machine tools, Feb. 1941 

2— Aluminum scrap, Mar. 1941, Dec. 
1943, Jan. 1945 

3— Zinc scrap, Mar. 1941 

4— Iron and steel scrap, Nov. 1944 

6 — Iron and steel products, Apr. 1941, 
Jan. 1945, May 1945, June 1946 

7— Cotton yams, May 1941 

10— Pig iron, Feb. 1945, July 1946 

11— Fine cotton goods, June 1941, 
Jan. 1943 

14—Raw silk, July 1945 
16—Raw cane sugar, Aug. 1941, Sept. 
1944 

19—Southern pine lumber, Jan. 1945, 
Feb. 1946 

23—Rayon grey goods, Feb. 1946 
26—Douglas fir, May 1946 

29— Gas coke, Nov. 1943, July 1945, 
June 1946 

30— Waste paper, June 1943 

39—Woven decorative fabrics, May 
1946 

49—Resale of iron and steel products, 
May 1945, Mar. 1946 


Maximum Price Regulations (MPR) and 
Price Schedules (PS)—Continued: 
50—Green coffee, Nov. 1945, June 
1946, Aug. 1946 

53—Fats and oils, Dec. 1943, Feb. 
1944, Aug. 1944 

60— Sugar, Sept. 1944, June 1946 

61— Leather, Jan. 1945 

62— Cigarettes, Apr. 1946 

63— New tires and tubes, Jan. 1942 

64— Stoves, Jan. 1942, Apr. 1945 

65— Floor coverings, Jan. 1942 
69—Lead, Jan. 1942 

82— Wire and cable, Jan. 1942 

83— Radios and phonographs, Feb. 
1942 

85— New automobiles, Feb. 1942 

86 — Washing machines, Feb. 1942, Oct. 
1945 

88 — Petroleum and petroleum prod¬ 
ucts, Feb. 1942, Sept. 1945 

89— Bed linens, Feb. 1942, Feb. 1944 

91— Tea, Feb. 1942 

92— Soy bean and peanut oil, Feb. 1942 

94— Western pine lumber, Feb. 1942, 
Aug. 1945 

95— Nylon hose, Feb. 1942 

97—Southern hardwood lumber, Feb. 
1942 

102—Mechanical refrigerators, Feb. 
1942 

106— Wool, Feb. 1942 

107— Used tires and tubes, Mar. 1942 

108— Nitrate of soda, sulphate of 
ammonia, Mar. 1942 

111— New vacuum cleaners. Mar. 1942, 
Dec. 1945, Feb. 1946 

112— Pennsylvania anthracite, Apr. 

1942, Nov. 1943, Feb. 1944, June 

1944 

113— Iron ore produced in Minn., 
Wise., Mich., Apr. 1942, Dec. 1942, 
Dec. 1945, June 1946 

114— Wood pulp, Apr. 1942, Feb. 1944 

116— China and pottery, Apr. 1942 

117— Used egg cases and used parts, 
Apr. 1942 

118— Cotton products. May 1942, Feb. 

1945 

119— Tires and tubes, original equip¬ 
ment, Apr. 1944 

120— Bituminous coal, May 1942, Nov. 

1943, May 1945 

122—Resale of coal, Jan. 1946 
127—Finished piece goods, May 1942, 
Dec. 1944, July 1945, May 1946 
130—Newsprint, May 1942, Mar. 1945, 
Aug. 1946 

132— Waterproof rubber footwear, May 
1942 

133— Farm machinery at retail, May 
1942, May 1946 


Maximum Price Regulations (MPR) and 
Price Schedules (PS)—Continued: 

134— Rental of construction and road- 
maintenance equipment. May 1942, 
July 1945 

135— Fertilizers, superphosphates, and 
potash, Apr. 1942 

136— Machines and parts, Mar. 1944, 
Oct. 1944, Sept. 1945, Oct. 1945 

137— Gasoline at retail. May 1942, Feb. 
1944, Oct. 1944, Sept. 1945 

142 — Retail ceilings for summer sea¬ 
sonal commodities. May 1942 

143 — Tires and tubes, wholesale, Nov. 
1943, Dec. 1944, Apr. 1945 

144— Insecticide at retail. May 1942 

146— Appalachian hardwood lumber, 
May 1942 

147— Bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, May 
1942 

148— Dressed hogs and wholesale pork 
cuts, Apr. 1942 

150—Milled rice, May 1942 

152— Canned vegetables, May 1942 

153— Women’s, girls’, children’s outer¬ 
wear garments, May 1942, June 1942 

154— Ice, May 1942 

156— Meat and fish, Aug. 1944 

157— Textiles, apparel, etc. for military 
use, June 1942 

160— Wooden agricultural containers, 
June 1942 

161— West coast logs, June 1942 

162— Typewriters, sale and rental, 
July 1942 

163— Woolen and worsted fabrics, June 
1942 

165—Services, July 1942, Apr. 1943, 
Dec. 1943, Jan. 1945, Feb. 1945, 
May 1945, Sept. 1945, Oct. 1945 
167—Rayon yam and staple fiber, 
June 1942, Apr. 1946 
169—Beef and veal carcasses, wholesale 
cuts, July 1942, Apr. 1946 

177— Men’s, boys’, tailored clothes, 
July 1942 

178— Fur coats, July 1942, Apr. 1945 

182— Kraft paper, July 1942 

183— Puerto Rico, July 1942 

185—Canned fruits and berries, July 
1924 

188—Manufacturers’ consumer goods, 
except apparel, Aug. 1942, Dec. 

1943, Mar. 1944, Apr. 1944, Oct. 

1944, Dec. 1944, Jan. 1945, Feb. 

1945, Mar. 1945, Apr. 1945, May 
1945, June 1945, July 1945, Aug. 
1945, Sept. 1945, Oct. 1945, Nov. 

1945, Dec. 1945, Jan. 1946, Feb. 

1946, Mar. 1946, May 1946, June 
1946 


Maximum Price Regulations (MPR) and 
Price Schedules (PS)—Continued: 

193— Whiskey, Aug. 1942 

194— Alaska, July 1942 

196—Turned wood products, Aug. 
1942 

198—Silver, Aug. 1946 

202—Brass and bronze, Apr. 1944 

207— Frozen fruits, berries, and vege¬ 
tables, Aug. 1942 

208— Work clothing, Aug. 1942, Aug. 
1944, Apr. 1946 

210— Fall and winter seasonal goods, 
Aug. 1942, Jan. 1946 

211— Cotton ginning services, Aug. 
1942 

213—Bedsprings, coil and flat. Sept. 
1942 

220—Rubber goods, June 1944 

224— Cement, Sept. 1942, Sept. 1945 

225— Printing, Sept. 1942 

227— Dried fruits, Sept. 1942 

228— Flue-cured tobacco, Sept. 1942 

229— Rubber footwear, Sept. 1942 
234—Stirrup pumps, Oct. 1942 

237— Food mark-up, wholesale, Oct. 
1942 

238— Food mark-up, retail, Oct. 1942 

239— Lamb and mutton carcasses, and 
cuts, wholesale and retail, Oct. 1942 

244—Gray iron castings, Oct. 1942, 
Oct. 1943, Sept. 1945 
246—Farm equipment, manufacturer, 
Nov. 1942, May 1946 

251— Construction services and in¬ 
stalled building materials, Nov. 1942 

252— Herring, Nov. 1942 

259— Beer, Nov. 1942, Dec. 1943, Dec. 
1944 

260— Cigars, Nov. 1942, Nov. 1944, 
Sept. 1945 

263—Phonograph records, Nov. 1942 

268— Perishable food, retail, Jan, 1943 

269— Poultry, Nov. 1942, Apr. 1943, 
Apr. 1944, July 1945 

270— Beans, dry edible, Nov. 1942 

271— Potatoes and onions, Apr. 1944, 
Nov. 1944, Feb. 1945 

282—Drugs and cosmetics, private 
formula, Dec. 1942 
287—Women’s, girls’, etc. outerwear, 
manufacturers, Dec. 1942, June 1943 
289—Dairy products, Dec. 1942 

292— Citrus fruit, Nov. 1942 

293— Stock millwork. Sept. 1945 
296—Flour, June 1945 

304—Utility shirts, Jan. 1943 
306—Canned foods, Jan. 1943, Mar. 
1943, July 1943, Dec. 1943 



Maximum Price Regulations (MPR) and 
Price Schedules (PS)—Continued: 

329— Fluid milk, Feb. 1943, June 1946 

330— Women’s, girls’, etc. outerwear, 
retail and wholesale, Sept. 1944, 
June 1946 

334— Rabbits, Mar. 1943, Jan. 1944 

335— Peanuts, Nov. 1943 

336— Pork cuts, retail, Apr. 1943 

339—Rayon stockings. May 1943, Jan. 
1944 

346—Corn, Mar. 1943, Dec. 1943 
360—Binder twine, Apr. 1944 
365—Matches, Oct. 1945 
406—Synthetic resins, Jan. 1945 
409—Frozen fruits and vegetables 
(1943, etc.), Dec. 1943 

418— Fish and sea food, July 1943 

419— Shrimp, July 1943 

421— Foods at wholesale, July 1943, 
Oct. 1943 

422— Retail food ceilings, groups 3 and 
4, July 1943, Apr. 1944, May 1944 

423— Retail food ceilings, groups 1 
and 2, July 1943, Apr. 1944, May 

1944 

426—Fresh fruits and vegetables, Nov. 
1944, Jan. 1945, Feb. 1945, Apr. 
1946 

429—Used consumer durables. Sept. 

1943 

436—Crude petroleum, natural gas, 
Aug. 1944, Jan. 1945, Apr. 1946 
438—Fall and winter outerwear, man¬ 
ufacturers, July 1943, Dec. 1944, 
Mar. 1945 

445—Whiskey, Jan. 1945 
448—Canned clams, Mar. 1945 
451—Book paper, Jan. 1945 
469—Live hogs, Oct. 1944, Dec. 1944, 
Oct. 1945 

487—Wheat, Jan. 1944, Dec. 1944, 
May, 1945 

490—Edible tree nuts, Oct. 1944 
493—Dried apples, Nov. 1943 
499—Imported watches, Dec. 1944 
506—Work gloves, manufacturer, May 

1944 

508— Rayon knit fabrics, Feb. 1944 

509— Citrus fruit, packed 1944 and 
thereafter, Feb. 1944 

518—Rice, Mar. 1944, Oct. 1944 
523—Plastic products, Mar. 1944 
528 Tires and tubes, May 1944, Apr. 

1945 

532 Maryland tobacco, May 1944 
540 Used automobiles, July 1944, 
June 1945, Aug. 1945, Jan. 1946 
"•41 Raw and dressed furs, June 1944 
547 Low-priced garments, June 1944 


Maximum Price Regulations (MPR) and 
Price Schedules (PS)—Continued: 
564—Fountain pens, pencils, Nov 

1944 

570—Underwear, etc., women’s, girls’, 
Jan. 1945 

9^2—Fall and winter garments, manu¬ 
facturer, Mar. 1945 
574 —Live cattle, Jan. 1945, Apr. 1945, 
July 1945, Sept. 1945 

577— Ice cream, Feb. 1945 

578— Low-priced garments. Mar. 1945, 
Nov. 1945, May 1946 

579— Certain fresh and frozen fish, 
Apr. 1945 

580— Retail prices for apparel and 
home furnishing. Mar. 1945, Oct. 

1945 

581— Industrial services. Mar. 1945 
583—Prefabricated houses. Mar. 1945 
585—Mixed feed, May 1945 

590—Wholesale prices, consumer 
goods, July 1945 

594—New automobiles, Aug. 1945, 
Nov. 1945 

596—Used business machines, Oct. 

1945 

598— Postwar mechanical refrigera¬ 
tors, Oct. 1945 

599— Radios and phonographs, Oct. 
1945, May 1946 

602—Nylon stockings, Nov. 1945 

605— Shirts, shorts, etc., Jan. 1946 

606— Prefabricated dwellings, Feb. 

1946 

Supplementary Orders: 

SO 108—MAP for apparel manufac¬ 
turers, Mar. 1945, Apr. 1945, Aug. 
1945, Sept. 1945, Dec. 1945 
SO 110—MAP for rayon cloth. May 
1945, Jan. 1946, Mar. 1946 
SO 113—MAP for wool fabrics, June 
1945, July 1945 

SO 114—Textile pricing, June 1945, 
Aug. 1945 

SO 118—Reconversion pricing, small 
manufacturers, Oct. 1945 
SO 119—Adjustments for reconver¬ 
sion manufacturers, July 1945, Aug. 
1945, Oct. 1945, Feb. 1946, May 
1946 

SO 120—Footwear wholesalers, July 
1945 

SO 122—Government agency sales, 
Jan. 1946 

SO 126—Decontrol of consumer goods, 
Aug. 1945, Oct. 1946 
SO 129—Decontrol of machines, in¬ 
dustrial materials, etc., Aug. 1945 
SO 130—Contractor inventory sales. 
Sept. 1945 


SO 131—Cotton textiles, Feb. 1946, 
Aug. 1946 

SO 132—Decontrol of certain food 
and tobacco products, Aug. 1945, 
Nov. 1945, Dec. 1945, Jan. 1946, 
Mar. 1946, June 1946, July 1946 
SO 133—Manufacturers’ individual 
adjustments. Sept. 1945 
SO 139—Low-priced commodity ad¬ 
justments, Nov. 1945 
SO 145—Expense rate adjustment for 
wholesalers and retailers, Feb. 1946 
SO 146—Reconversion industry re¬ 
porting, Feb. 1946 

SO 148—Low-priced commodity ad¬ 
justments, Mar. 1946 
SO 149—Individual adjustments, tex¬ 
tile, Mar. 1946 

SO 153—Wholesale and retail adjust¬ 
ments, Apr. 1946 

SO 162—Low-priced footwear adjust¬ 
ments, May 1946, June 1946 
SO 164—Fluid milk, June 1946 
SO 171—Lapse costs, July 1946 
SO 193—Exemption from price con¬ 
trol of all commodities except sugar 
and rice, Nov. 1946 

General Maximum Price Regulation 
(GMPR), Apr. 1942, May 1942, 
Nov. 1942, June 1944: 
Supplementary Regulations under 
GMPR: 

SR 1—Commodities exempt, Jan. 
1944 

SR 11—Services exempt, Dec. 1945, 
June 1946 

SR 13—Territories and Possessions, 
Feb. 1944 

SR 14—Modifications, Dec. 1943, 
Feb. 1944, May 1944, Aug. 1944 
SR 14B—Bread and bakery prod¬ 
ucts, May 1944, Mar. 1946 
SR 14C—Food and beverages, Aug. 
1946 

SR 14D—Tobacco, May 1945, Apr. 
1946 

SR 14E—Textiles, leather and ap¬ 
parel, Apr. 1946 

SR 14F—Drugs, chemicals, paint, 
Mar. 1945 

SR 15—Price adjustments, Feb. 
1944, Aug. 1944 

Food Products Regulation 1 (FPR 1), 
Sept. 1944, June 1946, Aug. 1946 
General Order 50 (GO 50), Apr. 1943 
General Order 68 (GO 68), Sept. 1945 
Maximum Export Price Regulation 
(MEPR), Apr. 1942 

Maximum Import Price Regulation 
(MIPR) Nov. 1944, Mar. 1945, 
Mar. 1946 


Restaurant Maximum Price Regulation 
(Rest. MPR), July 1944, Aug. 
1945, June 1946 

Temporary Maximum Price Regulation 
28 (TMPR 28), Feb. 1943 


Maxon, Lou R., Feb. 1943, Apr. 1943, 
May 1943, July 1943 
McCloskey, Gordon E., Mar. 1946 
McCullough, Max, Jan. 1942, Sept. 1944, 
Oct. 1944, Sept. 1946 
McKay. L. Donald, Jan. 1945 
McKeough, Raymond, Feb. 1943, Feb. 

1944 

McNeal, C. Dean, July 1946 
McNutt, Paul V., Apr. 1942 
Mead, George H., July 1946 
Meader, James L., June 1946 
Meat: 

Accounting, July 1945 
Black market, Apr. 1945, Jan. 1946 
Community ceilings, Apr. 1943 
Enforcement, Dec. 1942, Mar. 1945 
May 1945, Aug. 1945, Sept. 1946 
Grade labeling. Sept. 1943 
Litigation, Aug. 1943, Mar. 1945, July 

1945 

Price controls removed, July 1946, Oct. 

1946 

Price controls restored, Aug. 1946, Sept. 
1946 

Price increases, June 1943, Mar. 1946 
Price roll-backs, May 1943, June 1943, 
Aug. 1944 

Ration point values, Jan. 1944, Mar. 
1944, July 1944, Sept. 1944, Dec. 

1944, Sept. 1945 
Rationing begins, Mar. 1943 
Rationing ends, Nov. 1945 
Shortage, Feb. 1945, May 1945, Sept. 

1946, Oct. 1946 

Slaughter quotas, Nov. 1943, June 

1945, July 1945 
Strike, Jan. 1946 

Meat control program, Apr. 1945 
Meat shortages, Congressional investiga¬ 
tion, Apr. 1946 
Mechanical pencils, Nov. 1944 
Melons, July 1944 
Messner, Eugene, July 1946 
Metals, Feb. 1946, June 1946 
Metalware, Aug. 1946 
Mexican rations, Apr. 1943, July 1943 
Mica, ground, May 1945 
Midway, June 1942 

Military exemption under GMPR, Apr. 
1942 

Military goods prices, Sept. 1942 


Milk: 

Canned and condensed, June 1943, 
Apr. 1944, Dec. 1944, May 1946, 
June 1946 

Evaporated, goat. Mar. 1945, Aug. 
1946 

Fluid, Feb. 1943, Apr. 1943, Oct. 1943, 
June 1946 

Milk ceilings and subsidies, Congressional 
investigation, Sept. 1943 
Milk, litigation, July 1945 
Mill products, brass, Apr. 1946 
Miller, Byron S., Dec. 1942, Nov. 1945 
Millwork, stock, Sept. 1943, June 1945, 
Sept. 1945 

Mince meat, Nov. 1945 
Missouri school children, Dec. 1943 
Missouri, U. S. S., Sept. 1945 
Molster, William A., Nov. 1944 
Moncharsh, George, May 1945 
Montgomery Ward seizure, Apr. 1944 
Mops, wet, Mar. 1944 
Moscow meeting, Dec. 1945 
Moseley, John D., Oct. 1945 
Motors, electric, Oct. 1945, May 1946 
Motors, outboard. May 1946 
Movies: 

Ceiling On Your Home, Apr. 1946 
Prices Unlimited, Feb. 1944 
Story with Two Endings, Feb. 1945 
What’s Happened to Sugar, Dec. 1945 
Which Way This Time, Feb. 1946 
Mowitt, Glendon J., Sept. 1943 
Munda, June 1943 

Murray Committee (See Congressional 
Committees) 

Mushrooms, Jan. 1944 
Mussel shells, Apr. 1944 
Mussolini, Benito, July 1943 
Mutton, Apr. 1943, Apr. 1944 

N 

Nagasaki, Aug. 1945 

Nails, July 1945, June 1946, Aug. 1946 

Napery, table, Apr. 1946 

Naphtha, Nov. 1944 

Naples, Oct. 1943 

Nathanson, Nathaniel, Mar. 1942, Sept. 
1945 

National Defense Advisory Commission 
(NDAC), Jan. 1941 

National Hardwood Lumber Association 
inspectors, Jan. 1944 
National Housing Agency (NHA), Feb. 
1942 

National Retail Dry Goods Association 
(NRDGA), Sept. 1945 
Nazi criminals executed, Oct. 1946 
Nazi leaders indicted, Oct. 1945 


Nealans, George J., May 1944, Mar. 1945 
“Neighborhood Call,” July 1942 
Nelson, Donald M., Jan. 1942, Aug. 1944 
Neukom, John G., Feb. 1945, Mar. 1945, 
May 1945, Oct. 1945 
New-brand pricing, litigation, Dec. 1944, 
Aug. 1946 

New-goods pricing, June 1944, June 1945, 
July 1946 

New York legislative support, Apr. 1943 
Newsprint, May 1942, Aug. 1943, Mar. 
1945, Aug. 1946 

Newsprint prices and shortages. Congres¬ 
sional investigation, Oct. 1946 
Ney, Jerome M., Jan. 1944, Nov. 1944, 
Aug. 1945, Jan. 1946 
Nitrate of soda, Mar. 1942 
Nixon, R. A., Sept. 1942, Aug. 1946 
Noble, Lindsley H., Jan. 1945 
Normandy, July 1944 
North Africa, Nov. 1942, Feb. 1943 
Novelties, unimportant, Feb. 1945 
Nugent, Rolf, Aug. 1941, Mar. 1944 
Nuremburg Trials, Nov. 1945 
Nuts, bolts, etc., May 1942, Apr. 1946 
Nuts, edible tree, Nov. 1943, Oct. 1944 
Nylon hose, Feb. 1942, Nov. 1945 


o 

Oats, Dec. 1943, Aug. 1944, Mar. 1946 
O’Brien, John T., Sept. 1944, July 1946 
Occupancy after purchase, Sept. 1945 
Octopus meat, dried canned, Aug. 1946 
Oder River, Feb. 1945 
Office of Accounting Services, Jan. 1944 
Office of Board Management, Jan. 1945 
Office of Civilian Supply (OCS), Feb. 
1943 

Office of Defense Transportation (ODT), 
May 1942, July 1945 
Office of Economic Stabilization (OES), 
Oct. 1942, Apr. 1943, Oct. 1943, 
Sept. 1945, Feb. 1946 
Directives and Regulations, Aug. 1943, 
Aug. 1944, July 1945, Nov. 1945, 
Feb. 1946 

Office of Field Operations, Jan. 1945 
Office of Price Administration (OPA), 
Aug. 1941 

Office of Price Administration and Civil¬ 
ian Supply (OPACS), Apr. 1941 
Office of Production Management 
(OPM), Jan. 1941 

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 
June 1942 

Office of War Information (OWI), June 
1942 

Office of War Mobilization (OWM), 
May 1943 



Office of War Mobilization and Recon¬ 
version (OWMR), Apr. 1945, Sept. 

1945 

Oil burners, Jan. 1946 
Oilcloth, Jan. 1946 
Oils, edible (See also Fats and Oils) : 
Price, Dec. 1941, Feb. 1942, Sept 

1943, Feb. 1944, Sept 1944, Dec. 

1944, Jan. 1945, Mar. 1945, Oct 

1946 

Rationing, Mar. 1943, Apr. 1944, Jan. 

1945, Apr. 1945. May 1945, Sept 
1945, Oct 1945, Nov. 1945 

Okinawa, Apr. 1945, June 1945 
O’Leary, Paul M., Apr. 1942, Oct. 1943 
Oleomargarine (See margarine) 

Oliver, Bernard J., Dec. 1943, Jan. 1945 
O’Meara, Walter A., Dec. 1943, Mar. 
1944 

Onions, May 1943, July 1943, Apr. 1944, 
Feb. 1945 

Oppenheim, Burton E., July 1942, Dec. 
1942 

Oranges and orange juice. May 1944, 
Nov. 1944 

Ore, iron, Dec. 1945, June 1946 
Orelle, Aug. 1943 

Organization, OPA, Mar. 1942, Apr. 

1942, Nov. 1942, Jan. 1945 
Orth, William, Oct 1944 
Overtime pay, Apr. 1943 


P 

Pacific Mills, Jan. 1945 
Pact, U. S. S. R.-Great Britain, May 
1942 

Pads, sisal, Jan. 1946 
Pails, Sept. 1945, Aug. 1946 
Pajamas, Jan. 1946, May 1946 
Palestine, June 1946. 

Palmer, George E., Aug. 1943 
Paper, book and writing, Aug. 1943, 
June 1944, Jan. 1945, June 1945, 
Jan. 1946, June 1946 
Paper chase, Mass., Oct 1944 
Paper conservation, Nov. 1943 
Paperboard, Nov. 1943 
Paris Conference, Apr. 1946, Aug. 1946 
Paris liberated, Aug. 1944 
Parity, Dec. 1943, Jan. 1944, May 1945 
Parker, Fred, May 1945 
Parmelee, Rexford C., Jan. 1945, June 
1946 

Parts, automobile, Aug. 1945 
Parts, machinery. May 1946 
Parts, radio, Oct. 1945 
Pastrami, Sept 1945 
Pastries, Mar. 1946 


Patman Committee (See Congressional 
Committees) 

Peaches, July 1944, Mar. 1945 
Peanut butter, Nov. 1943 
Peanut oil, Feb. 1944, Oct. 1946 
Peas, Feb. 1943, Aug. 1944, Aug. 1946 
Peltries, Nov. 1944 

Pepper, Dec. 1941, Mar. 1944, Oct. 1944, 
Mar. 1946 
Peppers, June 1945 
Personnel freeze, July 1942 
Personnel Office, June 1942, Dec. 1943, 
Sept. 1946 

Personnel reductions, Aug. 1945, Sept. 

1945, Oct. 1945, Nov. 1946 
Peterson, Oliver, Apr. 1944 
Petroleum (See also fuel oil, gasoline), 
Feb. 1942, Dec. 1942, May 1943, 
July 1943, Jan. 1945, Nov. 1945, 
Apr. 1946 

Petroleum prices. Congressional investi¬ 
gation, Apr. 1943, Apr. 1944 
Phelps, Edward F., Mar. 1946, July 1946 
Phillips, Charles F., June 1942, May 1944, 
June 1944, Sept. 1944 
Phonograph records, Nov. 1942 
Phonographs, Feb. 1942, Oct. 1945 
Phosphate rock, Oct. 1945 
Pianos, Oct. 1944, Apr. 1945, July 1945, 
Jan. 1946 

Picker sticks. Mar. 1945 

Picture frames, Nov. 1944 

Piece goods, finished, May 1942, Dec. 

1944, July 1945, Aug. 1946 
Pig iron, Feb. 1945, Oct. 1945, Mar. 1946, 
July 1946 
Pig skin, June 1944 
Pigs, greased, Aug. 1946 
Pike, Sumner T., Oct. 1942, Aug. 1945 
Pillows, Apr. 1945 
Pine (See Lumber) 

Pipe, Apr. 1945, Dec. 1945 
Plaster, gypsum, Nov. 1945 
Plastics, Mar. 1944, Jan. 1945 
Play pens, Feb. 1944 

Pleasure driving ban, Jan. 1943, May 

1943, Sept. 1943 
Ploesti, Aug. 1943 
Plows, Jan. 1944 
Plumbing fixtures, Jan. 1946 
Plums, June 1944, Mar. 1945 
Plywood, western, Mar. 1946 
Point Rationing: 

Charts, Apr. 1943, Aug. 1943, Mar. 
1944 

Information campaign, Feb. 1943 
Values, Dec. 1943, Sept. 1943, Jan. 

1944, Mar. 1944, Apr. 1944 
Polier, Shad, Feb. 1943, Nov. 1944 
Pool and billiard parlors, Dec. 1945 
Popcorn, Oct. 1944 


Pork: 

Price, Mar. 1943, Feb. 1944, May 1945 
Rationing, Sept. 1943, Oct. 1943, Nov. 

1943, Dec. 1943, Feb. 1944, Mar. 

1944, Apr. 1945 

Porter, Paul A., Mar. 1942, Apr. 1942, 
Oct. 1943, Feb. 1946, Nov. 1946 
Potato chips, Aug. 1943 
Potatoes, May 1943, Dec. 1943, May 
1944, July 1944, Aug. 1944, Nov. 

1944, Feb. 1945, July 1945, Sept. 

1945, May 1946, June 1946 
Potsdam Conference, July 1945, Aug. 

1945 

Potter, Zenas, Dec. 1943, July 1946 
Pottery, Apr. 1942 

Poultry, Nov. 1942, Apr. 1943, July 1945, 
Aug. 1946 

Poultry marketing premium, Apr. 1944 
Poultry standards, Nov. 1944 
Preserves (See jams, jellies and preserves) 
Press releases, Dec. 1944, July 1946 
Presses, printing, June 1946. 

Pre-ticketed pricing, Mar. 1945 
Price Board Management, Oct. 1945, 
May 1946. 

Price check survey, Mar. 1944 
Price Control July 1940—February 1942 
(Publication: Federal Price Con¬ 
trol), Feb. 1942 

Price Control Bill (See Legislation) 

Price control lapse, July 1946 
Price Department, Aug. 1941, Mar. 1942, 
Apr. 1942, Aug. 1945 
Deputy Administrator, Apr. 1942, 
Aug. 1943, Aug. 1945, Sept. 1945, 
Jan. 1946 

Economic Adviser, Aug. 1943, Sept. 
1943, June 1946 

Executive Officer, May 1942, Mar. 

1943, Jan. 1944, Aug. 1946 
Building and Construction Division, 
Feb. 1946, Aug. 1946 
Consumer Goods Division, Aug. 1943, 
Sept. 1943, Jan. 1944, Nov. 1944, 
Sept. 1945, July 1946 
Decontrol Division, Aug. 1946, Sept. 
1946 

Field Operations Division, May 1944 
Food Division, July 1942, Aug. 1942, 
June 1943, Sept. 1943, Nov. 1944, 
Dec. 1944, Sept. 1945, Nov. 1945, 
Mar. 1946, July 1946 
Food and Apparel Division, Mar. 1942, 
July 1942 

Fuel and Transportation Division, 
Aug. 1946 

Fuel Division, Mar. 1942, Aug. 1945 
General Products Division, Mar. 1942, 
May 1942 


Industrial Manufacturing Division, 
May 1942, Sept. 1943, May 1944, 
Apr. 1946 

Industrial Materials Division, Mar. 
1942, May 1942, Sept. 1943, April 
1946 

Office of War Goods, Apr. 1945, Aug. 
1946 

Retail Trade and Services Division, 
Mar. 1942, Mar. 1943 
Services and Consumer Durable Goods 
Division, Mar. 1943, May 1943 
Services and Foreign Trade Division, 
Dec. 1943, Sept. 1945 
Standards Division, Sept. 1943 
Sugar Rationing Division, Jan. 1946 
Textile, Leather and Apparel Division, 
July 1942, Dec. 1942, Sept. 1943 
Transportation and Public Utilities 
Division, Sept. 1943, Aug. 1946 
Price lists, food. May 1943, May 1944, 
Aug. 1945 

Price panel authority, Aug. 1944 
Price Regulations (See Maximum Price 
Regulations) 

Price Schedules (See Maximum Price 
Regulations) 

Price Schedules upheld, July 1942 
Price Stabilization Division of NDAC, 
Jan. 1941 

“Prices Unlimited”, movie, Feb. 1944 
Pricing chart, furniture wholesalers, July 
1945 

Pricing formula revision, Feb. 1946 

Pricing, in-line, Dec. 1945 

Pricing, new-goods, Nov. 1945, July 1946 

Printing, Sept. 1942 

Printing presses, Jan. 1946 

Procedural Regulations: 

1— Protest and amendment to MPR’S, 
Feb. 1942, July 1944 

2— Adjustments under GMPR, May 
1942 

4—Suspension under rationing, June 

1942 

9—Appeals under rationing, Oct. 1942 
13—Industry Advisory Committee, 
June 1943 

17—Decontrol, Aug. 1946 
Processed food (See Food) 

Processed Food Rationing, Mar. 1943, 
Oct. 1943, Nov. 1943, Dec. 1943, 
Mar. 1944, Apr. 1944, July 1944, 
Sept. 1944, Dec. 1944, Aug. 1945 
Produce prices, Mar. 1946 
Product standard, Feb. 1946 
Professional Services Department, July 

1943 

Profit factors, Oct. 1945 
Protection, fire and theft, July 1944 
Prunes, June 1944 


Puerto Rico, June 1942, July 1942 
Pulpwood, Mar. 1944, Apr. 1944, May 

1944, Sept. 1944, Jan. 1945, May 

1945, Feb. 1946, Apr. 1946 
Pumps, small hand, Oct. 1943 
Pumps, stirrup, Oct. 1942 

Q 

Quality control, Apr. 1943, May 1943 
Quebec Conference, Aug. 1943, Sept. 

1944 

Quisling, Feb. 1942 

R 

Rabbit feed, Oct. 1943 

Rabbit skins. Sept. 1944 

Rabbits, Mar. 1943, Jan. 1944 

Race track closing, Jan. 1945, May 1945 

Radiators, Aug. 1945, May 1946 

Radio Programs: 

Bowles’ Broadcast, Nov. 1943 
District Directors, Dec. 1943 
Neighborhood Call, July 1942 
Porter, Jan. 1946 
Take Your Choice, Jan. 1946 
Radios, Feb. 1942, Apr. 1942, Oct. 1945, 
May 1946, Oct. 1946 
Railroad strike, May 1946 
Raincoats, July 1943 

Ration banking, Oct. 1942, Jan. 1943, 
Mar. 1943, June 1943, May 1944, 
Aug. 1944, Dec. 1944 
Ration currency: 

Food stamps, May 1943, Dec. 1943, 
Feb. 1944, Dec. 1944, Feb. 1945 
Gasoline coupons, June 1944, Dec. 
1944, June 1945 

Ration books, May 1942, Feb. 1943, 
Mar. 1943, May 1943, June 1943, 
July 1943, Oct. 1943 
Ration tokens, June 1943, Feb. 1944, 
June 1944, Sept. 1944, Jan. 1945 
Shoe stamps, June 1943, Sept. 1943 
Sugar stamps, Apr. 1942, Feb. 1944, 
Mar. 1944 

Rationing Department, Apr. 1942, Jan. 
1946: 

Deputy Administrator, Apr. 1942, Oct. 

1943, May 1944, Sept. 1944 
Apparel Rationing Division, Mar. 1942 
Automotive Supply Division, June 
1942, June 1944, Feb. 1945, May 

1945 

Food Division, May 1942, Oct. 1943, 
July 1944, Jan. 1945 
Fuel Division, Apr. 1942 


Miscellaneous Products Division, Mar. 

1942, Jan. 1943, Jan. 1944, Nov! 

1944 

Program Planning Division, Jan. 1944 
Ration Banking Division, Oct. 1942 
Rationing directive, Jan. 1942 
Rayon, June 1942, May 1943, Jan. 1944, 
Feb. 1944, Dec. 1944, May 1945, 
June 1945, Jan. 1946, Feb. 1946, 
Mar. 1946, July 1946 
Rayon MAP ( See Maxmum Average 
Price) 

Reconstruction Finance Corporation 
(RFC), Jan. 1945 

Reconversion accounting, Aug. 1945 
Reconversion adjustments, Aug. 1945 
Reconversion Director, Oct. 1946 
Reconversion formula, Oct. 1945 
Reconversion policy, Congressional in¬ 
vestigation, Sept. 1945 
Refrigerators, Feb. 1942, Apr. 1942, Apr. 

1945, Aug. 1945, Oct. 1945, Apr. 

1946, Aug. 1946 
Regional Administrators: 

I Boston, Jan. 1942, Mar. 1944 

II New York, Dec. 1941, Nov. 1943, 
Nov. 1945, June 1946 

III Cleveland, Jan. 1942, Oct. 1945 

IV Atlanta, Jan. 1942, Mar. 1943, 
Apr. 1944 

V Dallas, Jan. 1942, Oct. 1944 

VI Chicago, Nov. 1941, Feb. 1943, Feb. 
1944, July 1946 

VII Denver, Jan. 1942, Feb. 1944, 
June 1946 

VIII San Francisco, Jan. 1942, Apr. 

1943, Oct. 1943, July 1944, Oct. 

1945 

IX Territories and Possessions, May 
1942, Sept. 1943 

Regional Orders: 

Coal, Jan. 1943 
Milk, Oct. 1943 
Restaurants, Apr. 1943 
Regulations, Price ( See Maximum Price 
Regulations) 

Reimer, Everett W., Sept. 1946 
Relaxation of pricing standards, Congres¬ 
sional investigation. Mar. 1946 
Reliners, tire. Mar. 1945 
Remagen, Mar. 1945 
Remy, William E., Nov. 1944, Dec. 1945 
Rent area “designation”, Mar. 1942, Apr. 
1942, Oct. 1942 

Rent areas under control, June 1942, July 
1942, Aug. 1942, Sept. 1942, Oct. 

1942, Nov. 1942, Dec. 1942, Sept. 

1943, Nov. 1943, Dec. 1943, Aug. 

1944, Oct. 1944, Dec. 1944, Dec. 

1945, Nov. 1946 


Rent Committees, May 1941 
Rent control. Congressional investigation, 
May 1943 

Rent control, D. C., Dec. 1941 
Rent control for commercial property, 
Congressional investigation, July 
1944, Nov. 1944 
Rent control restored, July 1946 
Rent Department: 

Deputy Administrator, Mar. 1942, Oct. 

1943 

Legal Division, Aug. 1943, Jan. 1945 
Operations Division, Sept. 1942, Oct. 

1943 

Program Division, Nov. 1942, Apr. 
1944, July 1945 

Rent evictions, July 1943, June 1944 
Rent litigation, Oct. 1942, Feb. 1943, 
May 1943, Mar. 1944, Dec. 1944, 
Apr. 1945, June 1945, July 1945, 
Dec. 1945, Mar. 1946, May 1946, 
June 1946, July 1946, Aug. 1946 
Rent regulations, Apr. 1942, June 1943 
Rent tie-in agreements prohibited, Jan. 
1945 

Rental operating cost surveys, Dec. 1941, 
Oct. 1943 
Repair: 

Automobile, Sept 1945, Oct. 1945 
Shoe, Feb. 1945 

Repair services, adjustments, Dec. 1943 
Replacement cost, accounting, Dec. 1941 
Reporting provisions, GMPR, Aug. 1943 
Reppert, J. H., Aug. 1945, Aug. 1946 
“Rescue” adjustments, Sept. 1945 
Rescue program for textile manufactur¬ 
ers, Mar. 1946 

Research Director, Sept. 1944 
Research Division, Sept. 1943 
Reserves, accounting, Apr. 1942 
Resignations, Food Price Division, May 
1943 

Restaurant Industry Advisory Committee, 
Sept. 1946 

Restaurant prices, Apr. 1943, July 1944, 
Aug. 1944, June 1946, Sept. 1946 
Restaurants (Institutional users, ration¬ 
ing), Apr. 1942, Nov. 1942, Mar. 
1943, Mar. 1944, Jan. 1945, Mar. 
1945 

Restriction Order 1 (slaughter control), 
to WFA, Apr. 1943 

Retail deliveries curbed, ODT, May 1943 
Reuss, Henry S., Nov. 1942, Mar. 1944 
Revenue Act of 1943, Feb. 1944 
Rhine crossing, Mar. 1945 
Ribbons, Mar. 1946 

Rice, May 1942, Oct. 1943, Mar. 1944, 
Oct. 1944, June 1946, Oct. 1946 
Richards, Jonathan B., June 1946. 

Rieley, Gordon, Feb. 1946, Aug. 1946 


Riley, Roderick H., Sept. 1944 
Rivets, May 1942, Apr. 1946 
Road machinery, May 1942 
Robbery, New York Verification Center, 
Apr. 1946 

Roer River, Feb. 1945 
Rogers, James G., Jr., Aug. 1943, Sept. 
1946 

Roll-back policy, Apr. 1943 
Roll-backs, Feb. 1943, May 1943, June 
1943 

Roll-backs upheld, litigation, Sept. 1944 
Rome, July 1943, June 1944 
Rommel, June 1942, July 1942 
Roosevelt, President Franklin D., Jan. 
1941, Sept. 1942, Oct. 1942, Jan. 

1943, Jan. 1944, June 1944, Sept. 

1944, Nov. 1944, Jan. 1945, Apr. 
1945 

Rope, sisal, Dec. 1943 
Rose, Durant, Mar. 1943, May 1944 
Roselius, Frederick, Dec. 1943, Sept. 1945 
Rosin, wood, Nov. 1944, June 1945 
Rowe, Harold S., May 1942, Oct. 1943 
Rowe, Kenneth W., Mar. 1943, Jan. 1944 
Rubber, buna and neoprene, June 1945 
Rubber Committee, Aug. 1942 
Rubber Director, Sept. 1942, Sept. 1943 
Rubber footwear: 

Price, May 1942 

Rationing, Sept. 1942, Sept. 1945 
Rubber goods, June 1943, Nov. 1943, 
Feb. 1945, Oct. 1945 
Rubber, scrap, July 1942, Mar. 1945 
Rugs, wool, Jan. 1946, Apr. 1946 
Rum, Dec. 1944 

Russians, Mar. 1943, Apr. 1945, Feb. 
1945 

Rye, Mar. 1946, June 1946 
Rzhev, Mar. 1943 

s 

Safe deposit box rentals, May 1943 
Salaries, proprietory, June 1943 
Salerno, Sept. 1943 
Salmon, Jan. 1945, June 1946 
San Francisco Conference, June 1945 
Sardines, Mar. 1944 

Sayre, Wallace S., Dec. 1943, Sept. 1946 
Scallops, Feb. 1944 
Schwellenbach, Lewis B., May 1945 
Scrap: 

Aluminum, Jan. 1945 
Iron and steel, May 1943, Nov. 1944 
Rubber, Mar. 1945 
Scrap drive, July 1942 
Screw machine products, Sept. 1945 
Screws, May 1942, Apr. 1946 
Scully, James S., Oct. 1945, May 1946 
Seasonal commodities. May 1942, Aug. 
1942 


Secretary of the Interior, Feb. 1946 
Secretary of the Navy, Apr. 1944, May 
1944 

Secretary of State, Nov. 1944, July 1945 
Secretary of the Treasury, June 1946 
Security deposits, Nov. 1944 
Seeds, vegetable, Dec. 1943 
Seeley, Ronald, Jan. 1943 
Senate Banking and Currency Commit¬ 
tee (See Congressional Committees, 
Senate) 

Service regulation, Apr. 1943 
Services: 

Agricultural, June 1944 
Construction, Nov. 1942 
Consumer, July 1942, Sept. 1942, July 
1946 

Dry cleaning, Jan. 1945 

Industrial, Sept. 1942, Mar. 1945, Dec. 

1945, July 1946 
Laundry, Jan. 1945 
Sessions, Robert E., Aug. 1941 
Sewer pipe, vitrified clay, Sept. 1945 
Shaw, A. Manning, Jan. 1943 
Shearling, raw, Feb. 1945 
Sheep herders, extra rations, June 1943 
Sheeting, Sept. 1944 
Shingles and roofing, asphalt, May 1946 
Shipping losses, June 1943 
Shirts, Jan. 1943, July 1944, May 1945, 
Nov. 1945, Jan. 1946, Apr. 1946, 
July 1946 
Shoes: 

Price, Feb. 1945, July 1945, Jan. 1946, 
May 1946, Sept. 1946, Oct. 1946 
Rationing begins, Feb. 1943: 

Dealer inventory, July 1945 
Exports, Sept. 1945 
Huaraches, July 1943 
Non-leather, Oct. 1943, Sept. 1944 
Odd-lot sales, July 1944, Feb. 1945 
Stamp validity, June 1943, Sept. 1943 
Womens’ and childrens’, Jan. 1944, 
May 1944 

Rationing ends, Oct. 1945 
Shortening (See Fats and oils) 

Shorts, July 1944, Jan. 1946, July 1946 

Shoup, Eldon G., Mar. 1944 

Shrimp, Sept. 1943, June 1944 

Sicily, July 1943 

Silk, Jan. 1946, May 1946 

Silver, Aug. 1946 

Silverware, Jan. 1946 

Singapore, Feb. 1942 

Sirups, Apr. 1944, Sept. 1946, Oct. 1946 

Skins, Oct. 1946: 

Deer and elk, Jan. 1944 
Reptile, Jan. 1945 
Slaughter control: 

Ceilings (price orders), Apr. 1945, July 
1945, Apr. 1946 


Control Order 1, Apr. 1945, May 1945, 
June 1945, Aug. 1945, Sept. 1945 
Control Order 2, Apr. 1946, May 1946 
Quotas, May 1945, July 1945, Sept. 

1945 

Restriction Order 1, Apr. 1943 
Slips, July 1944 

Slocum, Clarence W., Sept. 1943, May 
1944 

Small Business Committee (See Congres¬ 
sional Committees) 

Small business in wartime, Congressional 
investigation, Nov. 1942 
Smith Committee (See Congressional 
Committees) 

Smith-Connally Act, June 1943 
Snuff, May 1946 
Snyder, John M., July 1945 
Soap, July 1942, May 1943, May 1946 
Soil pipe, cast iron, June 1945, Aug. 1946 
Soles, rubber, June 1944, Feb. 1945 
Solid Fuels Administration, Apr. 1943 
Soybean oil, Feb. 1942, Jan. 1945, Oct. 

1946 

Soybeans, Dec. 1941, Jan. 1944 
Special agents, enforcement, July 1944 
Spinach, July 1943, Aug. 1943, Feb. 1946 
Spools, Oct. 1944 

Sporting goods, Oct. 1945, Mar. 1946 
Springs, bed and upholstery, Apr. 1944, 
Apr. 1946, May 1946 
Stabilization: 

Act, Sept. 1942, Oct. 1942, June 1944, 
June 1945, June 1946, July 1946 
Seven Point Program, Apr. 1942 
Stalin, July 1945 
Stalingrad, Nov. 1942, Feb. 1943 
Stamping machine products, Sept. 1945 
Stamps, ration (See Ration currency) 
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 
Aug. 1946 

Standards Division, Sept. 1942 
Stanford, Alfred B., Nov. 1944, May 1945 
Starch, Sept. 1946 
State law, OPA, litigation, Dec. 1944 
States and their agencies, litigation, Feb. 
1946 

Stationery items, June 1944, Feb. 1946 
Staves, nail keg, Dec. 1944 
Stay of enforcement, litigation, Mar. 
1945 

Steel, Apr. 1941, Jan. 1945, Feb. 1946, 
Mar. 1946 

Steel products (See also Wire, nails, 
springs), May 1942, May 1945, Aug. 
1945 

Steel strike, Jan. 1946, Feb. 1946 
Steelman, John R., June 1946, Oct. 1946 
Stepladders, Oct. 1946 
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., Sept. 1943, 
Nov. 1944 

Steuart & Bro. v. Bowles, May 1944 


Stock Exchange, New York, Sept. 1946 
Stocking, George, Mar. 1942, Oct. 1942 
“Story With Two Endings”, movie, Feb. 

1945 
Stoves: 

Price, Jan. 1942, Mar. 1946, June 1946 
Rationing, Dec. 1942, Aug. 1943, 
Jan. 1944, Aug. 1944, Sept. 1944, 
Oct. 1944, Aug. 1945 
Straub, Walter S., Oct. 1943, July 1944 
Strauss, Oscar R., Jr., Jan. 1942, Mar. 
1943 

Strauss, Robert W., Nov. 1942, Mar. 
1943 

Straw, May 1945 

Strawberries, Apr. 1944, Oct. 1944, Feb. 
1945 

Strikes, May 1943, Nov. 1945, Dec. 1945, 
Jan. 1946, Feb. 1946, Mar. 1946, 
May 1946, Sept. 1946, Oct. 1946, 
Nov. 1946 

Subpena power, litigation, Nov. 1945 
Subpena, regional office, July 1942 
Subsidies: 

Legislation: 

Stabilization Act, Oct. 1942 
Stabilization Act renewal, July 1946 
CCC renewal, July 1943 
Products: 

Butter, May 1943, June 1943 
Cheese, Feb. 1946 
Cottonseed, Dec. 1943 
Fruits and vegetables, Feb. 1943, 
Apr. 1943 

Meat and livestock, June 1943, Oct. 

1943, Nov. 1943, May 1945 
Milk, Apr. 1943, Sept. 1943 
Peanut butter, Nov. 1943 
Wheat, Jan. 1944, Apr. 1946 

Sugar: 

Price, Aug. 1941, Dec. 1941, Sept. 

1944, June 1946, Sept. 1946 
Rationing: 

Anouncement, Jan. 1942 
Beginning of program, Apr. 1942 
Canning sugar, May 1942, June 

1942, May 1943, Feb. 1944, Mar. 

1944, May 1944, June 1944, Feb. 

1945, May 1945, Mar. 1946, July 
1946 

Industrial users, Aug. 1943, Sept. 

1943, Oct. 1943, Dec. 1944, Nov. 
1945 

Loggers, Apr. 1944 
Sheep herders, July 1944 
Veterans, Apr. 1945, June 1945 
To Price Department, Jan. 1946 
Still controlled, Oct. 1946, Nov. 1946 
Sugar for industrial users. Congressional 
investigation, Mar. 1945 
Sulphate of ammonia, Mar. 1942 


Sundries, rubber drug, May 1945 
Supply Priorities and Allocation Board 
(SPAB), Aug. 1941 
SHAEF, Jan. 1944 
Surplus goods, civilian, Sept. 1944 
Suspension orders upheld. May 1944 
Swayzee, Cleon O., Apr. 1944, Oct. 1944 
Sweden, Aug. 1943 
Swigart, Eugene, Jan. 1945 
Synthetics, Jan. 1945 

T 

Taggart, Herbert F., Aug. 1941, Mar. 

1942, May 1942, June 1943 
“Take Your Choice”, radio show, Jan. 
1946 

Tangerines, Nov. 1944 
Tarawa, Nov. 1943 
Tarpaulins, June 1946 
Taxes, litigation, Apr. 1944 
Taxis, May 1942 
Tea, Feb. 1942 

Teheran Conference, Nov. 1943, Dec. 

1943 

Television sets, Sept. 1946 

Tents, June 1946 

Tequila, Oct. 1943 

Terry cloth, Dec. 1944 

Textile accounting, June 1944, Sept. 

1944 

Textile enforcement, Jan. 1945, Dec. 

1945 

Textiles (See also Bankhead Amend¬ 
ment) : 

Cotton, Jan. 1945, Aug. 1945, Nov. 

1945, Aug. 1946, Sept. 1946, Oct. 

1946 

Household, Oct. 1945 

Military, June 1942 

Rayon, June 1942, May 1943, Jan. 

1944, Feb. 1944, Dec. 1944, Feb. 

1946, Mar. 1946 

Wool, June 1942, June 1945, July 

1945, July 1946 
Thompson, Roy L., July 1946 
Thread, cotton, Jan. 1945 
Tie-in agreement, rent, Jan. 1945 
Tie-in sales, litigation, June 1946 
Tile, western, Oct. 1944, Dec. 1945 
Timber, standing, Aug. 1943 
Timm, Tyrus B., May 1944, Dec. 1945 
Timmons, Doyal E., Dec. 1945 

Tin cans, scrap, July 1942 
Tippett, Tom, Oct. 1943 
Tires and tubes: 

Price, Dec. 1941, Jan. 1942, Mar. 1942, 
June 1943, Nov. 1943, Feb. 1944, 
Apr. 1944, May 1944, Oct. 1944, 
Nov. 1944, Dec. 1944, Apr. 1945, 
Aug. 1945, Oct. 1945, Nov. 1945, 
Jan. 1946, June 1946 


Rationing begins, Jan. 1942 

Eligibility, Apr. 1944, May 1944, 
Aug. 1945 

Inspection, Dec. 1942, Apr. 1944, 
July 1944 

Quotas, Nov. 1944, Dec. 1944, Feb. 
1945, Apr. 1945, June 1945, Sept 
1945 

Truck and farm, Dec. 1943, July 
1944, Aug. 1945 
Tubes, May 1943, July 1944 
Rationing ends, Jan. 1946: 

Tobacco, Sept. 1942, Dec. 1943, June 

1943, May 1944, July 1944, Nov. 

1944, Sept. 1944, Dec. 1944, Mar. 

1945, July 1945, Oct. 1945, Nov. 

1945 

Tobruck, June 1942 
Tokens, ration (See Ration currency) 
Tolley, Howard IL, Mar. 1942, July 1942 
Tomatoes, Feb. 1943, Sept 1944, Aug. 

1946 

Tools, cutting, Apr. 1946 
Tools, machine, Apr. 1946 
Topcoat case. Mar. 1944 
Torpedoes, railway, Mar. 1944 
Towels, paper, Mar. 1945 
Toys, Mar. 1944, Nov. 1944, Nov. 1945, 
Jan. 1946 

Trailers, truck, Aug. 1946 
Transportation and Public Utilities Di¬ 
vision, Sept 1942 

Transportation of coal to New England, 
accounting, May 1942 
Treasury Department, July 1945 


Treble damage suits, July 1942, Aug. 

1944, Jan. 1945, June 1946 
Trucks, Jan. 1942, Mar. 1944, Sept 1944, 
May 1945, Nov. 1945, Mar. 1946, 
Sept. 1946 

Truman, President Harry S., Mar. 1943, 
Oct 1943, Mar. 1944, June 1944, 
Nov. 1944, Apr. 1945, May 1945, 
July 1945, Sept. 1945, Oct 1945, 
May 1946, June 1946, Sept. 1946, 
Oct. 1946 

Tubes, collapsible. Sept. 1946 
Tubes, radio, May 1944, Apr. 1946 
Tubing, industrial, May 1946 
Tubs, Aug. 1946 
Tugboat strike, Feb. 1946 
Tuna fish, May 1943, Sept. 1945 
Tunis, May 1943 
Turpentine, gum, Jan. 1946 
Twine, binder, Apr. 1944 
Typewriters: 

Price, July 1942, July 1943, Apr. 1944 
Rationing, Mar. 1942, Dec. 1943, Apr. 
1944 

u 

Underwear, Nov. 1944, Jan. 1945, Sept. 
1946 

Uniforms, Boy Scout, June 1946 
United Automobile Workers (UAW), 
Sept 1945 

United Nations, May 1943, Jan. 1946, 
Mar. 1946, Oct 1946 
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation 
Administration (UNRRA), Mar. 
1946 


U. S. v. Charles S. Kay, Apr. 1942 
U. S. v. George F. Fish, Inc. (tie-in sales) 
enforcement, June 1946 
U. S. Steel Co., Sept. 1946 
Used cars ( See Automobiles) 

Utensils, aluminum. May 1945, Sept. 
1945 

V 

Vacuum cleaners, Mar. 1942, Aug. 1945, 
Dec. 1945, Feb. 1946, June 1946 
Valves, pressure, Jan. 1946 
Vass, Laurence C., May 1942, Mar. 1943 
Veal, July 1942, Apr. 1943 
Vegetables, July 1943, Feb. 1944, Apr. 

1944, July 1944, Jan. 1945, Jan. 
1946, June 1946 

Vegetables, canned: 

Price, May 1942, Sept. 1944, Sept 

1945, June 1946 

Rationing, Mar. 1944, Apr. 1944, Dec. 

1944 

Veneer, June 1944, Jan. 1945 
Verification Centers, Regional, June 1944, 
Aug. 1944 

Veterans’ Administration, June 1945 
Veterans’ Advisers, Mar. 1945, June 

1945 

Veterans’ housing, Mar. 1946 
Veterans’ preference, rent, Sept. 1946 
Victory gardeners, Apr. 1944 
VE-day, Sept. 1944, May 1945 
VJ-day, Aug. 1945 
Vinson directive, Nov. 1943 
Vinson formula, Nov. 1944 


Vinson, Fred M., Mar. 1942, May 1943, 
June 1943, Mar. 1945, July 1945, 
Violations, Apr. 1942, Feb. 1943, July 
1943, Feb. 1944 
Virgin Islands, June 1942 
Vitamins, litigation, May 1945, Sept 
1946 

Volunteers, May 1943, Jan. 1944 

w 

Wage controls. Sept. 1942, Dec. 1942 
Wage formula, July 1942 
Wage-price policy, Aug. 1945, Feb. 1946 
Wage-price policy audits, Apr. 1946 
Wage Stabilization Board (WSB), Jan. 
1946 

Wales, Robert W., Jan. 1942, Aug. 1943 
Wallace, Donald H., Aug. 1941, Mar. 
1942, May 1942, Aug. 1943, Sept. 
1943 

Wallace, Henry A., Sept. 1946 
Walnuts, Oct. 1944 
Walsh, Charles J., Oct. 1943, Apr. 1946 
Walters, Rae E., Feb. 1944, July 1946 
War contracts cancellation, Aug. 1945 
War Food Administration (WFA), Apr. 
1943 

War Labor Board (WLB), Jan. 1942, 
Sept. 1945 

War Manpower Commission (WMC), 
Apr. 1942, Dec. 1942, Sept. 1945 
War Production Board (WPB), Jan. 

1942, Apr. 1942, May 1942, July 

1943, Aug. 1944, Feb. 1945, Apr. 
1945, May 1945, Aug. 1945, Sept 
1945 


War Shipping Administration (WSA), 
Feb. 1942 

Warehouse litigation, May 1943 
Warehousing rates, cotton, Aug. 1945 
Warner, Kenneth O., June 1942, Dec. 
1943 

Washing machines, Feb. 1942, May 1943, 
Aug. 1945, Oct. 1945, Oct. 1946 
Wastepaper, July 1944 
Wastepaper standards, litigation, Mar. 

1945 

Watches, Sept. 1943, Jan. 1944, Dec. 

1944, Apr. 1945, May 1946 
Watermelons, Dec. 1944, June 1944 
Wattle bark, Oct. 1944 
Wax paper, July 1944 
Webber, Harold V., Apr. 1946 
Webbing and braid, elastic, Sept. 1945 
Weigel, John C., Dec. 1941, Feb. 1943 
Welles, Sumner, Sept. 1943 
Wells, William A., Jan. 1945 
Welsh, Edward C., May 1944 
“What’s Happened to Sugar?”, movie, 
Dec. 1945 

Wheat, Dec. 1941, July 1943, Nov. 1943, 
Jan. 1944, Dec. 1944, May 1945, 
Mar. 1946, Apr. 1946, May 1946, 
June 1946, Aug. 1946 
Whelden, Chester H., Jr., Dec. 1943 
“Which Way This Time?”, movie, Feb. 

1946 

Whiskey, Aug. 1942, June 1943, Aug. 
1943, Jan. 1944, Jan. 1945, June 
1945 


Whiteside, A. D., Apr. 1943, May 1944 
Wilcox, Clair, May 1942, Sept. 1943 
Willkie, Wendell, Oct. 1944 
Williams, Birkett L., Jan. 1942, Oct 
1945 

Williamson, H. H., Nov. 1943, May 1944 

Wilson, Charles E., Aug. 1944 

Window shades, May 1946 

Wine, Nov. 1945 

Wiping cloths, Oct. 1943 

Wire and wire products, Jan. 1942, Jan. 

1946, June 1946 
Wire cable servicing, Mar 1944 
Wood products, Aug. 1942, Nov. 1943, 
Jan. 1944 

Wood, rationing, Sept. 1943 
Wood pulp, Apr. 1942, Feb. 1944, Jan. 
1945, Sept. 1946 

Wool, Dec. 1941, Feb. 1942, Mar. 1946 
Wool MAP (See Maximum Average 
Price) 

Woolley, Daniel P., Nov. 1943, Nov. 
1945 

Work clothing, Aug. 1942, May 1944, 
Aug. 1944, Sept. 1944 

X Y Z 

Yakus v. U. S., enforcement, Mar. 1944 
Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945 
Yarn, combed cotton, May 1941 
Yarn, dyed carded and combed cotton, 
Apr. 1946 

Yarn, dyed cotton, Aug. 1946 
Zinc scrap, Mar. 1941, May 1945 





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